Re: Student proposal deadline.

Hi everyone,

I apologize for the confusion caused by my email. However it was
intended as a wake up call to flush out people who had been
procrastinating about their application.

The time shown in the Google Calendar is 12:00 in 24-hour time on
April 8th, not 12 midnight so I carry some responsibility for this.

Reading through the email discussion on the Google mentors forum there
appears to be very little sympathy for late applications. The
arguments are along the lines of the timeline being clear and that the
vast majority of students had in fact worked very hard to ensure that
their applications were submitted on time. This in turn allowed them
to receive feedback from mentors.

In any case we certainly value your contributions Ersin. I have tried
your patch and have found some problems with crashes. I'm not sure if
those crashes are generated from your patch or already present in
trunk. I'll need to investigate some more.

No matter what happens we value your contributions to AbiWord Ersin. I
hope we can get your patch into trunk without too many more
modifications and I invite you to continue to work with us to develop
AbiWord.

Best regards,

Martin

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Ersin Akinci <ersin.akinci@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> No, rather, midnight April 8th would mean the end of April 8th in
> common usage here (US) at least.  To clarify: if it's 11:59 PM April
> 8th, the next minute would be called midnight April 8th.  But
> technically, if noon is 12:00 PM, then midnight is 12:00 AM, and 12:00
> AM April 8th is the beginning of April 8th, not the end...then again,
> if you look up "midnight" in a few dictionaries, you'll see that it
> refers to "the transition between night and day", which is a pretty
> ambiguous thing.
>
> So I'm agreeing with you =).  Google's site is pretty explicit about
> it and even has a chart: 11 AM PST, April 8th.  However, I was just
> going by the e-mails on the thread.
>
> It's completely my fault, I should have checked on the main site.  At
> any rate, I hope that GSoC has mercy on me...
>
> -Ersin
>
> On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Randy Kramer <rhkramer@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Saturday 09 April 2011 02:43:33 am Ersin Akinci wrote:
>>> It seems like the mistake is on me; actually, I think that Martin was
>>> providing a great heads up by saying that the deadline was at
>>> midnight rather than the actual deadline, which was in fact 11 AM
>>> PST.  I got confused, however, and thought that this meant midnight
>>> April 9th, i.e., pitch black outside at the very end of April 8th.
>>> At least, this is the standard usage of the term "midnight" where I
>>> am from, but I've looked it up the term and I see that it's
>>> ambiguous.  It refers generally to the transition between night and
>>> day.
>>
>> So, what are you saying, that the term midnight, April 8th, meant: pitch
>> black outside at the very end of April 7th?
>>
>> That is an odd usage to me, also.  I guess going by a 24 hour clock (in
>> C ;-), midnight is 00:00:00 (as opposed to 24:00:00) so it would be the
>> next day, but I've never encountered a situation where "midnight, April
>> 8th, meant: pitch black outside at the very end of April 7th".
>>
>> I'm just curious, what do most people think?  Is this country
>> specific--I mean maybe US people think my way, and people in some other
>> countries think differently?  (Or maybe it is programming language
>> specific? ;-)
>>
>> How is the IRS deadline for income taxes specified?  I know it is (in
>> general terms) the end of the day on Monday, April 18th, not the end of
>> the day on Sunday, April 17th.
>>
>> BTW, I'm just trying to learn, not start an argument.
>>
>> Randy Kramer
>>
>>
>
>
>
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Received on Sun Apr 10 00:57:34 2011