On 13/05/2019 11.04, sebb wrote:
On Mon, 13 May 2019 at 15:59, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote:
On 5/13/19 10:03 AM, sebb wrote:
On Mon, 13 May 2019 at 14:48, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote:
On 5/13/19 8:34 AM, Suresh Kumar Anaparti wrote:
Hi ApacheCon team,
CFP link to submit proposal is disabled before the deadline. Please check.
No. It wasn't. This is a matter of timezone differences.
I've not seen how the deadline time was expressed, but it sounds like
it may have been expressed using a local time-zone.
If so, may I suggest that future deadlines are expressed as UTC?
Possibly also a weblink that automatically displays the local time.
Well, sure, ok, but it doesn't matter. No matter when we close the CFP,
no matter what timezone we have expressed it in, no matter what grace
period we provide, there are people who attempt to submit after it
closes. I am convinced that the only actual solution is to advertise one
close date/time, and then actually close it 24 hours after that. Except
then then people come to expect that, and you're back at the beginning.
And, FWIW, CFP end time was expressed in the local time of the browser
viewing it, specifically so there could be no confusion. Yet here we are. :)
However the browser TZ may not have been set correctly.
Whereas if the time is expressed in UTC, it is unambiguous.
BTW, what was the deadline in UTC?
it was 2 hours ago, so 1pm UTC. The system tells you it "closes in N
hours/days/months" depending on time remaining, so there should be no
confusion there as to when it closes. If you see "closes in one day" and
you wait a day, maybe don't :)
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