Due to personal circumstances I’m cutting it a bit close on the castle contest. But the start and ending times are very vague to me.
For instance, it looks like the Marble contest just opened up at 5:00 CET which is 4:00 GMT? But the contest schedule says GMT+0?
That GMT +0 is cited at every contest, but is that end of day, start of day, maybe even noon? Or even none of the above as it seems? So I’m confused, I’m hoping that anybody could clarify this for me and possibly others.
So for instance. If the contest ends on the 15th of december at UTC+0 :
What day/time will that contest close in Central Europe? (or any time zone you are in/fancy as long as it is more clear than MW’s UTC+0)
You can google, UTC time now, and it will show you the current UTC time and calculate it based on your local time.
Yet, i’ve seen delays in their timing, it could be work load on the developers, or could be delay between the change being posted and how long it will take to show on the website.
Thanks! Already tried that, UTC+0 is one hour earlier then here, but it does not seem to coincide with the start and end of contests, hence my question. And it still doesn’t clarify wether the end date/day itself is included.
The start and end of contests isn’t automatic, it’s manual action from what I can gather. In theory you’ve got until the end of day of 15th on UTC timezone, in practice there can be anything from 0 to 8h slip on that (eg the contest can end on 16th, 8 AM UTC) but I wouldn’t bet on that. I don’t think they end the contests before deadline, but I can be mistaken on that since I haven’t paid that close attention to it.
Thanks both! It currently also says 2 days which is a relief as well. A countdown on the contest page would be helpful though, although that might be challenging if it isn’t automated.
Don’t trust it. I’ve learned to never trust the contest end times. Haven’t been burned yet, thankfully, but I’ve certainly cut it close (as in just a few minutes to spare )
My brain kinda broke when I saw this. Is that a sideways bedslinger? That looks kinda cool!
Haha, yes! Works a charm. I designed this printer back in 2017 for schools, but it is still working like a beast, virtually indestructible. The sideways bed slinging was to have a narrow footprint (shelving them away) and have them present as much of the printing process as possible (educational and such). I’m still very proud of this little machine but sadly cheap competition from far far away (I won’t name any names) have made this printer kinda obsolete.
I believe we made some quite interesting design choices that companies could still learn from. This is the one we sold until recently, but the core is still unchanged:
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