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It's a minor annoyance, but it would be nice if the sentence "Problem ... accessible on ...[GMT]" had " in so and so hours", and maybe minutes, appended to it. The addition would have the same meaning to everyone around the globe, no GMT adjustment mental calculation necessary. I for one have no idea what my offset from GMT is at any particular time, what with the daylight saving etc.

I Agree. Also, shouldn't the new problem be accessible at 9am? or will 193 be accessible at 9am?

btw, you can check here to see how long till a new problem:
http://projecteuler.net/rss_display.php?id=194

stijn263 wrote:I Agree. Also, shouldn't the new problem be accessible at 9am? or will 193 be accessible at 9am?

btw, you can check here to see how long till a new problem:
http://projecteuler.net/rss_display.php?id=194

Oh, neat. In the original post I wanted to confess that I also never know whether 12pm means noon or midnight, but I thought about it and concluded that it must mean midnight, because then 11pm goes on to 12pm, instead of having a discontinuity of 12pm going on to 1pm. And I was wrong apparently! According the link above, the problem will be accessible at noon GMT. I had a suspicion that things wouldn't necessarily make sense.

Btw, I saw in another thread, "Accessibility of new problems" i think, a message from Daniel Fischer that problem 193 won't be accessible due to technical difficulties, so instead the next problem will be 194. Go figure

I believe it's the problem mentioned here, we can't currently change the status of problem 193. Unfortunately, Colin's not here for the rescue.

miodrag.milenkovic wrote: Oh, neat. In the original post I wanted to confess that I also never know whether 12pm means noon or midnight,

I believed that the posting time is at midnight...

At last we've found Robert's weakness! Quick, let's come up with some hideous questions to do with time zones

So it's 11am -> 12pm -> 1pm ? That doesn't make sense at all..

It does a minute later. Look at the watch at 11⁵⁹ ante meridiem. Look at the watch two minutes later, it's 12⁰¹ post meridiem

00⁰¹ post meridiem makes more sense to me.. But I don't think my reasoning will change a hundreds of years old convention

But 00⁰¹ is eleven hours and 59 minutes before noon.