Re: [s-d] [s-b] Phil's request to join

["Jamie Dallaire" <bad.leprechaun@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ohhhhhh.... I missed that....

OK So your actions do work, and you're a player... You'll have to resubmit
the tidiness list anyway once it's cleared the objection period for it to
take effect. Same with Teaching the Beast the Tomato Trick.

Sorry about that,

BP

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Hammond, Michael <Michael.Hammond@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I agree with that reasoning relative to ndays, but the rules say the Join
> happens in 2 *r*days, not *n*days.  If it said ndays, I'd completely agree
> with you.  But the definition of rdays doesn't call for the same "at the end
> of the nday after X consecutive changes" restriction.  It simply says X
> rdays ends after X occurrences of midnight UTC.
>
> MCTMike
>
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> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Hammond, Michael <
> Michael.Hammond@xxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > My join request took place at 6:51PM UTC on Tuesday, and the rule says I
> > become a Player after "At least two rdays have passed since the request
> was
> > made.  The definition of rdays says that X rdays means after X
> occurrences
> > of midnight UTC.  So there should have been one midnight at the end of
> > Tuesday, and another at the end of Wednesday - making me a Player at
> 12:01
> > AM UTC Thursday, I think.  No?
>
>
> Yeah it's a little confusing. But look at the example in the rules that
> clarifies the meaning of this. It says that if it is the middle of nday 2
> and something is set to happen "in 2 ndays", then it happens at the end of
> nday 4. So really what happens is that we get to the end of nday 2, and
> then
> 2 consecutive 24 hours pass (each sweeping through one 00:00 UTC) before "2
> ndays" are supposed to have been elapsed. Therefore your join request on
> Tuesday goes into effect at the end of Thursday.
>
> BP
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