I'm not understanding the recent activity date ranges at all. For example, today around 12PM I had 105 rep for the day. I was hoping to reach the cap when I got home from work :D but now I click "today" and I've got 25. I don't get it. When I click "Yesterday" it shows me posts from 2 hours ago. That's not yesterday, so that to me is a bug. Unless days are shorter in SO world of course. That's fine, but perhaps they should not be called "today" and "yesterday" if they don't start and end say, oh, around 24 hours apart. If I answered something today, I feel it should be in today, not moved out to yesterday after a few hours.
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i feel sure this is a duplicate, but i'm not finding it. if it isn't a dupe, it should probably get added to the faq.– quack quixoteMar 20, 2010 at 1:33
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1@~quack, this one? meta.stackexchange.com/questions/27199/when-does-a-day-start– o.k.wMar 20, 2010 at 1:42
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Days are defined in UTC.
The day ends at Midnight UTC, more commonly known as:
- 4:00PM PST
- 5:00PM MST
- 6:00PM CST
- 7:00PM EST
Notice these are Standard Times not, Daylight Savings Times. Therefore if you are in the Pacific Standard Timezone, and you post something at 2PM, at 5PM, it will be considered yesterday.
answered Mar 20, 2010 at 1:05
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Sounds like I have to get up earlier then to reach my daily limit! Mar 20, 2010 at 1:08
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This may explain why I've missed out on getting the fanatic badge on SO. Mar 20, 2010 at 15:12
If you are on linux/unix/osx
$ TZ=utc date
Will give you the time of day in UTC
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I searched for how to do this at the command line in Windows (sacrelige!), as I was curious, and got a SO post.. stackoverflow.com/questions/203090/… Mar 20, 2010 at 11:15