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Re: Internet Draft Final Submission Cut-Off Today

2013-02-26 16:34:17
On 2/26/13 2:25 PM, Paul E. Jones wrote:
Dale,

Personally, I'd trust "date -u" much sooner than any random person.
Even better:

     $ date --date='00:00 Feb 26, 2013 UTC'
     Mon Feb 25 19:00:00 EST 2013
     $
Funny thing is when I try the date from the announcement:

All Final Version (-01 and up) submissions are due by UTC 24:00 Monday,
February 25.

I get this:

$ date --date='24:00 Feb 25, 2013 UTC'
date: invalid date `24:00 Feb 25, 2013 UTC'

Seriously, what the heck is 24:00?  Is that like the meeting we'll have in
the afternoon at about 13:90?
The minute which occurs after 23:59 is 00:00 of the following day if you have a leap second, you get 23:59:60 which is fun...
Paul