On 31/10/13 02:51, Newyorkbrad wrote: > In an arbitration committee election a couple of years ago, I definitely > recall confusion about whether a deadline of 0000 on a given date meant > that the deadline expired as of the beginning of that date or the end of > that date.
Voting periods in SecurePoll are actually half-open intervals [S, E), i.e. "starting at exactly time S, proceeding up to but not including time E". So "E = 2013-11-03 00:00:00" is actually the correct way to express a voting interval that includes the whole of 2013-11-02 and nothing after that. However, I have been browbeaten into using 23:59:59 in more recent elections, thus stealing a whole second of potential voting time from our poor voters. -- Tim Starling _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
