DRAFT PROPOSAL: Porting the HotSpot VM to Haiku x86

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 02/03/2008, Tim Bell <Tim.Bell at sun.com> wrote:
> Clemens Eisserer wrote:
>  > fear that the proposal stage is already over (March
>  > 2, 2008 at 11:59 P.M. (PST)).
>
>
> 11:59 PM is one minute before midnight.  Compare that to 11:59 AM which is one minute before
>  noon.  I had this discussion recently with some Danish friends.  Perhaps this terminology is
>  more unique to the USA than we realize.
>
>  It is currently 3:33PM out here in Silicon Valley, so by my reading of the rules the gates are
>  open for final proposals until bedtime PST tonite, Sunday 2 March 2008.
>
>  Feel free to check the local time here (for any timezone, although I set up the link for PST):
>   http://www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?Pacific/d/-8
>
>  HTH - Tim
>

I understood the time correctly first time, but then all the odd
comments today made me go and double-check that it was P.M.  It's
basically just the end of Sunday in California (the minute after is
00:00 on the 3rd, perhaps it should have been quoted as 23:59 to make
it clearer, P.M. or Post-Meridiem can be unclear especially in other
locales I guess).  Times being in PST is something I sort of got used
to during Google's Summer of Code which also uses this as its time
basis.

23:59 PST is 8am on Monday morning here in the UK (UTC+0000 at the
moment) and even more into the day if you're further east.

Hope that clears things up,
-- 
Andrew :-)

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