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<blockquote data-quote="Bob Blaylock" data-source="post: 802611" data-attributes="member: 16749">So, as it stands, there is a period of one minute between the end of one challenge, and the beginning of the next one?&nbsp; I now have a very faint memory of the previous exchange, but think it was based on some misconception about overlapping time, and about how I spotted some pattern of start and end times that I didn't think made sense.&nbsp; I don't have time right now, but maybe I should go back and look for it later.&nbsp; Perhaps I was thinking differently, then, than I am now, but the way I am thinking now, it makes sense to me that the end time of one challenge ought to be the same as the start time of the following challenge.&nbsp; And now that I am thinking about that, I think I see what confusion might have arisen by specifying by date, viz, that the end date being a Wednesday (just barely) might be taken to imply that there is any part of Wednesday where it is still valid to submit an entry for the now-ended challenge.&nbsp; I bet that's the basis of the previous discussion.&nbsp; I guess it's not anything that is really going to create a problem, but specifying the end time only to the minute may imply that anytime within that minute is still a valid time to submit an entry.&nbsp; An entry submitted at 23:59.99 would still be valid, as long as it is submitted before 00:00:00.00, right?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bob Blaylock, post: 802611, member: 16749"] So, as it stands, there is a period of one minute between the end of one challenge, and the beginning of the next one? I now have a very faint memory of the previous exchange, but think it was based on some misconception about overlapping time, and about how I spotted some pattern of start and end times that I didn't think made sense. I don't have time right now, but maybe I should go back and look for it later. Perhaps I was thinking differently, then, than I am now, but the way I am thinking now, it makes sense to me that the end time of one challenge ought to be the same as the start time of the following challenge. And now that I am thinking about that, I think I see what confusion might have arisen by specifying by date, viz, that the end date being a Wednesday (just barely) might be taken to imply that there is any part of Wednesday where it is still valid to submit an entry for the now-ended challenge. I bet that's the basis of the previous discussion. I guess it's not anything that is really going to create a problem, but specifying the end time only to the minute may imply that anytime within that minute is still a valid time to submit an entry. An entry submitted at 23:59.99 would still be valid, as long as it is submitted before 00:00:00.00, right? [/QUOTE]

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