friendlylocalmod: (shodan)
friendlylocalmod ([personal profile] friendlylocalmod) wrote in [community profile] turingfest2018-04-22 07:47 pm
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Timezone Confusion

It has been brought to my attention that the clock I was following to judge UTC time was in fact an hour ahead of UTC, due to daylight savings time. As a result, signups closed an hour earlier than 11:59 PM UTC.

This is entirely my mistake, and I'm terribly sorry for any inconvenience that resulted! Unfortunately, matching has already been run and signups have been sent, so I can't reopen signups. All I can do is offer my apologies and promise to make sure this doesn't happen next year.

The assignment due date will be June 3, 11:59 PM actual UTC time. Countdown here.

(Anonymous) 2018-04-23 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Basically, you were checking GMT instead of UTC. GMT is Greenwitch mean time, the GB related time zone. UTC is the coordinated universal time and it is no time zone.

It's alright, it happens. :) Hopefully no harm was done?