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[podmod.livejournal.com]

so malnpudl asked kind of an important question. and seeing how 1/3 of podmod is asleep, and 1/3 is watching lost or something, and i really ought to be focusing on updating the damn archive, i figured i would answer it, speaking for everyone! it's a kind of consensus. for very specific definitions of the term.

mal's question:
At what time on June 2nd will the contest officially end?

my our answer:
midnight in the last place to have a midnight in the world.

okay, this is all subject to revision on account of how the international dateline makes my head hurt, but as a handy reference:

the amplificathon is over at midnight on june 2. the midnight that we are counting as the final possible midnight is the one in american samoa, since there seemed to be one more time zone, but i couldn't find any land there on the map, and i kind of doubt anyone is posting from a ship. (please correct me if you are on a ship and plan to post from GMT-13. or whatever it is.)



when it is midnight june 2 (when the day is about to turn into june 3) in samoa, it is:

11 pm june 3 at the south pole
8 pm june 3 in japan
7 pm june 3 in hong kong
3 pm june 3 in dubai
2 pm june 3 in athens (the one in greece, not georgia)
1 pm june 3 in berlin
noon june 3 in the uk
7 am june 3 us eastern
6 am june 3 us central
5 am june 3 us mountain
4 am june 3 us pacific
1 am june 3 in hawaii

there you go. times are adjusted for places that daylight savings applies.

Comments

[zabira.livejournal.com]

please correct me if you are on a ship and plan to post from GMT-13

i love your brain. <3

[twasadark.livejournal.com]

Wow!! This took more brainpower than I usually use in a week to come up with.

:-)

[malnpudl.livejournal.com]

This makes me really want to fly to the South Pole just so I can post podfic from there.

[anatsuno.livejournal.com]

*giggles*

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

You're so good at maths, general_jinjur! You totally should have taken the job as Dr. Rodney McKay's research assistant.

Here's a question unrelated to time zones: So if there was only one NCIS story listed, in a pairing I didn't write, at the opening of the challenge, does that mean all the subsequent NCIS stories posted don't affect the "rarity" or point value of the fandom? Like, I'm puttin' up my fourth NCIS story, and while they all have different pairings, it's no longer become a rare fandom for me.

And then just a later, annoying, shut-up-sab, innocent question: maybe next time there should be points for length of fic recorded? Because for me, I much prefer DOWNLOADING longer fics (like, at least 15 minutes) to make it worth my while, and there are tons of like, minute, minute and a half fics up there (including some recorded by me!) which are awesome, but I'd love to incentivize folks to record longer stories. Next time round? /bats lashes