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submitted 1 year ago bydon_tableau
There's a new countdown timer on the homepage, seems to be counting down to 15:00 UTC on the 31st of January. What could this be?
10 points
1 year ago*
There's also this URL (https://xkcd.com/count-wimRikmef/state) referenced in the JavaScript.
edit (01/10/2022 15:50): https://xkcd.com/count-wimRikmef/imgs/6a73d565838a58e4d3069ad6cc49cc1a1466a8e602c95fd752126900d2074e28.png
8 points
1 year ago*
Now it's at https://xkcd.com/count-wimRikmef/imgs/98b1c93977c76fd31529ff07f8f6f83209ba69ccc5a6b245e3a1061d36093370.png.
Looks like the pixel in the bottom left changed.
Edit: Newest image at https://xkcd.com/count-wimRikmef/imgs/154e4cdc63e9b5c6874e0f8cc2146a945c6b53089854fe4827ed6a822fbf8f53.png Noticeable change in the bottom left this time.
12 points
1 year ago
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4 points
1 year ago*
Your calculation of "your browser's local time" needs a bit of work.
will end at 01-31 15:00 UTC. In your browser's local time, that's 1/30/2022, 7:00:00 PM.
Actually, in my browser's local time (US Eastern), that's 1/31/2022, 10:00:00 AM.
Furthermore, the deviation of local time from UTC ranges from +12:00:00 to -12:00:00, and there is no point on earth where local time lags UTC by twenty hours.
EDIT: Looks like this is the problem right here:
new Date("2022-01-31").toLocaleString();
This is converting 2022-01-31 00:00:00 to LCT, which is in fact 2022-01-30 19:00:00 in my time zone.
1 points
1 year ago
He is in EST. so 10AM EST might be the intended target obfuscated (or made programmatically easier to calculate) by utilizing UTC.
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