Just had to submit something at school. Thinking I have plenty of time, I took it. I wanted to write a note along with the submission, so I took my time until like 23:59:20 when I hit submit.

The fuck you mean submission not possible past deadline? Why is it not the next day 0:00 if exclusive?

The difference from Time.is was +0.015 seconds (±0.067 seconds).

In HS I used to do such timing for comedic purposes, guess it won’t work here.

  • finalarbiter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 days ago

    Without clarification, I always assume that a time limit like 23:59 will be at 23:59:00, not 23:59:59. Every program I’ve used for assignments since those platforms started to be a thing has followed this logic.

    The logic my teachers always gave for using :59 instead of midnight was so that the assignment due date was not misleading, since midnight is technically part of the next day.