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As of now, the content linked says nothing more than the PR announcement from yesterday -- so either the title is misleading, or the OP comes from the future.
by dr_zoidberg 11y ago
As of now, the content linked says nothing more than the PR announcement from yesterday -- so either the title is misleading, or the OP comes from the future.
(I'm aware he might have other sources for the title, but it's still misleading)
- allcentury 11y agoI think the announcement is live at noon today (EST).
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- wrboyce 11y agoFor those who also dislike timezone-juggling: http://time.is/1200_23_July_2015_in_EDT?http://www.nasa.gov/news/media/newsaudio/index.html http://time.is/1200_23_July_2015_in_EDT?http://www.nasa.gov/...
- joshontheweb 11y agoThanks for sharing that. I've been looking for something like this. Traveling and juggling meetings in multiple timezones is a big source of anxiety for me. I'm always wondering if I did the math wrong or if there is a daylight savings I haven't accounted for.
- rndn 11y agoThere are actually plenty of tools for problems related to timezones, for example here is one for finding the best time for Skype conferences: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html
- tonyjstark 11y agoMaybe both, or none. It's complex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY
- ParadigmBlender 11y agoI also recommend http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/ http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/. Sounds like it would fit your use case well.
- slayed0 11y agoNow can you link one that uses the ISO 8601 date standard, for those of us who also dislike date juggling?
- toxican 11y agoNow can you link one that uses unix time, for those of us who hate ourselves?
- johnchristopher 11y agoI think it uses the browser's locale.
- pyrophane 11y agoHey, you guys remember swatch beats?
- david-given 11y agoAm I the only one who that that beats was actually a pretty decent, if totally doomed, idea? cricket noises
- wuliwong 11y agoI haven't had my morning coffee and I misread 'reply' as the username and thought you were having a big, multi-threaded conversation with yourself. :) I even vaguely thought 'is that guy's name reply?'
- ArekDymalski 11y agoNo, you aren't alone :) However reading [1] influenced my opinion. [1] http://qntm.org/abolish http://qntm.org/abolish
- danielweber 11y agoPeople think they are being more precise by saying "EST," but, quick, are we in daylight savings time now, or out of it? It turns out we are, and I don't meant to suggest that GP didn't know this. But what if we weren't in daylight savings time, and GP said "EST"? Would we have to change an hour? I highly recommend just saying "Eastern Time."
- Asbostos 11y agoOr better yet, UTC or GMT since probably more people in the world know their offset relative to that, than EST.
- lostbit 11y agoTrue. We know our current offset from UTC (or legacy 'GMT'). I always use the real offset at that time. Thus, I just inform my clock saying UTC-3 (or UTC-2 when we are in daylight savings time).
- ycombobreaker 11y agoI agree, wrong timezone (DST or not?) is as bad as no timezone. I have gotten in the habit of using Olson timezone names, US/Eastern for example, because I have seen CT used to refer to both US and European Central time.
- danielweber 11y agoCrap, I was wrong. "S" doesn't stand for "Savings," it stands for "Standard." We really are in EDT. All the more reason to never specify it! :)
- joshstrange 11y agoWelcome the world of pain that is timezones and DST... As someone who has had to write an extensive amount of deal with these two concepts they are the worst things ever. We should just abolish timezones, DST, and move to the International Fixed Calendar. Time sucks. I'm even in favor of moving to a seconds-based time unit like kiloseconds, miliseconds, etc instead of minutes/hours/days/weeks/months/years/etc. "Metric Time" if you will...
- mathgeek 11y agoYou probably mean EDT, just FYI.
- comrade1 11y agoOnly on HN would a discussion about the discovery of an earth-like planet devolve into a discussion on the proper use of time zones...
- jeletonskelly 11y agoHow is this link even on the front page? There's no sauce for anything in the title unless OP works for NASA...
- sparaker 11y agoShows how much we are interested in finding another earth.
- myth_buster 11y agoEdit: I think OP is referring to the Kepler Candidate KOI-4878.01 [0] with the ESI as 0.98. [0]: http://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/DisplayOverview/nph-DisplayOverview?objname=K04878.01&type=KEPLER_CANDIDATE http://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/DisplayOver... _______________________________________________________________ This post is ridiculously clickbaity! There should be a {{citation needed}} tag there or the title be changed. Anyways, the anticipation for the 9AM PDT announcement is feverish.
- darkstar999 11y agoWe have a "flag" link. I believe it is appropriate for this post.
- 3327 11y agoOP has other source, this is been making the chatter rounds in SV last night. I overheard from a JPL source.