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12:46 AM
Boo
 
 
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2:04 AM
@SimonForsberg I made my guess for 750 voters this time when the election was just a half-dozen hours along.... based on the curve of participation in the previous election. A few hours after my 750-vote prediction, I presume as the US was waking up, a significant spike in activity which did not conform to the previous curve, blew my 750 estimate out the water. The spike added 100 unaccounted votes, so that spike pushes me to 850 based on the curve trends from before.
 
 
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6:20 AM
@rolfl are you sure that it wasn't Europe waking up? the spike is at 10 hrs, the election started at ... 22PM UTC, IIRC
 
 
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7:35 AM
@Vogel612 It started at 20:00 UTC, so time was 22:00 CEST
 
 
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2:37 PM
> 8,123 voters were eligible, 2,218 visited the site during the election, 1,693 visited the election page, and 831 voted
2015:
> 4,684 voters were eligible, 1,385 visited the site during the election, 1,513 visited the election page, and 631 voted
 
3:22 PM
:43895263 Why removed?
 
because I didn't like the wording....lol
 
Ah.
Election ends "tomorrow".
 
20PM UTC is tomorrow (EST), no?
 
the statistics bothers me a little bit, almost 4k more eligible voters and only an extra 200 votes.
 
Not sure, TBH. Too lazy to check.
@Malachi Consider them protest non-voters because they are mad that the current mods are leaving.
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#politics
 
3:24 PM
naah
 
@Malachi awesome, thanks!
 
@MathieuGuindon YW
I don't think there is any Daylights savings time mumbo jumbo we have to worry about either...
 
well Canada is on DST right now
(since March 11th IIRC)
 
US too.
Well, Minnesota, I should say.
It's at the state's discretion, and some states don't even bother :)
 
3:32 PM
Europe too, since March 25th
@Hosch250 Oh God, so some states use DST, some not?
 
@SimonForsberg Yep.
> The two US states that don't observe Daylight Saving Time are Arizona and Hawaii. Daylight Saving Time is also NOT observed in Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, and the Northern Marianas.
I totally want to move to Arizona.
Hawaii not so much. I hear they are infested with feet fungi.
 
there are some counties in some states that also don't do DST
 
@Malachi Oh my gosh.
Now that would make it fun.
 
yeah I think there are a couple here in Tennessee
 
States, easy-ish to deal with. Counties, not so much ;P
 
3:38 PM
On the African continent, Namibia and Morocco are the only countries that do observe DST. The rest doesn't.
 
Question: It seems only "progressive" places do DST. Are they really just proving how dumb and backwards they are?
 
I think Namibia used to do DST till 2017. Not really sure if they still do it.
 
Daylight saving time in the United States is the practice of setting the clock forward by one hour during the warmer part of the year, so that evenings have more daylight and mornings have less. Most areas of the United States observe daylight saving time (DST), the exceptions being Arizona (except for the Navajo, who do observe daylight saving time on tribal lands), Hawaii, and the overseas territories of American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the United States Virgin Islands. The Uniform Time Act of 1966 established the system of uniform Daylight Saving Time throughout...
I glimpsed something about Arizona not being entirely DST free
and that california wanted permanent DST but shelved the legislation
 
@Malachi They are just deliberately trying to screw with the rest of the nation.
 
Canada has some places that don't use DST either, right?
 
Just change their (#@)%* working hours to 8-4 instead of screwing with the @#%* clock.
 
Time zones, fun...
 
Sorry, but sometimes I wish we'd give California to China. They'd teach them how good they have it.
 
lol
 
Woot, there's a wiki.
Most areas in North America and Europe, and some areas in the Middle East, observe daylight saving time (DST), while most areas of Africa and Asia do not. In South America, most countries in the north of the continent near the equator do not observe DST, while Paraguay and southern parts of Brazil do. The practice of observing daylight saving time in Oceania is also mixed, with New Zealand and parts of southeastern Australia observing DST, while most other areas do not. == Observance as of 2018 == == See also == Time zone UTC offset Lists of time zones Daylight saving time in the Americas Summer...
Austria:
> Observed DST in 1916–1918, 1920, 1940–1948 (as part of Germany between 1940–1945) and since 1980.
Try calculating history there...
Time since epoch? Eh...
Estonia:
> Observed DST in 1918, 1940–1944, 1981–1988, 1997–1999 and since 2002.
 
3:47 PM
Next time someone argues in support of DST, I'm going to ask them if they support Hitler too :P
After all, DST was one of his policies!
 
4:06 PM
@Hosch250 I support DST
 
I'm disappointed. I thought you had more sense than that. (Also, Be Nice applies here, so I won't ask if you support Hitler.)
 
@Hosch250 Are you going to ask the same to people who love Volkswagens and a good Autobahn?
 
@Mast I already ask them about Volkswagens.
 
@Hosch250 But saying "I thought you had more sense than that" is okay?
 
Is it? Hmmm.
 
4:16 PM
Can we try to get the conversation back to the topic of moderator elections?
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831
1658 minutes till end of election.
 
5:08 PM
Tomorrow at 3:PM my time :)
 
5:26 PM
10 PM here.
 
Monking
 
Monking @Phrancis
 
Monking
 
5:43 PM
I think I remember reading about a country that's really close to 180 degrees, and they not only have DST but they changed a whole day, too.
or was it just that they flipped to the other side of the data line to change a day, I forget if it was DST related.
 
@rolfl That happens a lot.
I mean, by some standards of a lot.
 
yeah, in 2011, samoa lost the 30th December.... :-) theguardian.com/world/2011/dec/30/samoa-loses-day-date-line
 
@rolfl I was about to say "You mean they couldn't have their New Year's Eve parties?"
Then you changed it to 30.
 
hey, if they can lose a whole day, I can get that day's date wrong the first time.
As mistakes go, mine is trivial ;-)
 
@rolfl Sweden had February 30th in 1712.
February 30 occurs on some calendars but not the Gregorian calendar, where the month of February contains only 28 days, or 29 days in a leap year. February 30 is usually used as a sarcastic date for referring to something that will never happen or will never be done. February 31 may also be used in such a fashion. == Swedish calendar == February 30 was a real date in Sweden in 1712. Instead of changing from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar by omitting a block of consecutive days, as had been done in other countries, the Swedish Empire planned to change gradually by omitting all leap...
 
5:49 PM
@SimonForsberg holy crap
 
there are leap seconds too
 
So, seriously, @SimonForsberg, why do you like DST?
 
I like DST
 
Why?
 
because it's still sunny when I drive home
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5:51 PM
What benefit does DST have?
 
> The Swedish conversion to the Gregorian calendar was finally accomplished in 1753, by omitting the last 11 days of February.
 
so I get to wear my sunglasses
 
Oh.
I guess I missed that one because I can start any time between 7-9.
So I actually get that benefit without DST (except I don't wear sunglasses).
 
@Hosch250 DST for me is an indication of change. It's a clear sign that spring is coming.
I also sleep better the night DST happens (also when DST is removed actually)
 
> March 0 is an imaginary date, used (most often in astronomy and software engineering) to refer to the last day of February, as a way of allowing for the fact that the number of days in February varies in leap years
software engineering...?
I haven't seen this yet
 
5:53 PM
not all Java devs use Skeet's library
 
oh it is a Java thing?
 
then there's all the PHP folks
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lol
 
@SimonForsberg The snow melting isn't a big enough sign?
@Malachi LOL.
 
months should be zero based....lol jk
 
5:55 PM
When getting the last day of the month from a month-picker in JS:
new Date(value.split('/')[1], value.split('/')[0], 0); // browsers treat 0 as the last day of the previous month
 
@Hosch250 You never know when the snow melts around here. And then the snow can always come back. DST however doesn't change back until after 7 months.
 
@Hosch250 sometimes I wonder why I don't do more web dev. then things like this happen, and I don't wonder anymore.
 
@Malachi March 0 is really useful actually. It's a doomsday.
The Doomsday rule is an algorithm of determination of the day of the week for a given date. It provides a perpetual calendar because the Gregorian calendar moves in cycles of 400 years. The Doomsday algorithm for mental calculation was devised by John Conway in 1973 after drawing inspiration from Lewis Carroll's perpetual calendar algorithm. It takes advantage of each year having a certain day of the week, called the doomsday, upon which certain easy-to-remember dates fall; for example, 4/4, 6/6, 8/8, 10/10, 12/12, and the last day of February all occur on the same day of the week in any year....
 
@MathieuGuindon IKR?
 
Oh well, as long as they don't mention the Maya.
 
6:02 PM
@Mast Nope, not that kind of doomsday.
 
@SimonForsberg interesting
somehow I ended up on the Home Brew site...
 
Aren't dates fun?
 
@Phrancis Depends on how the date goes.
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Oh, wow...
 
6:18 PM
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