Joel Uckelman on 11 Oct 2000 15:28:47 -0000


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Re: spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: voting reminder


Quoth Wbfu Xbegorva:
> 
> Joel Uckelman sprach:
> >Duh. I was wrong about when voting ends when I sent the ballot. Here's a 
> >corection:
> >
> >Voting ends at 00:00:00 UTC 12 October 2000. (That's 7 pm on Wednesday for 
> >those of us in the Central Time Zone). Which means that game days always 
> >begin at 7pm (until Daylight Savings Time ends, whenever that is, in which 
> >case days will begin at 6pm, I think).
> 
> Why was it we had them in UTC, again? :)

Aha. That's because I have my server's clock set to UTC, and I use one of 
the times in the a Received header to date events. This makes for easy time 
comparisons between events, and will ensure consistency if/when the server 
is no longer in the this time zone.

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J.

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