Re: draft ballot

[Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>]

On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 12:57:30AM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>, 2015-04-01, 00:35:
> >>Here is the draft ballot:
> >>
> >>    Voting period starts      00:00:00 UTC on Monday, April 1st, 2015
> >>    Votes must be received by 23:59:59 UTC on Sunday, April 14th, 2015
> >
> >That should of course be:
> >    Voting period starts      00:00:00 UTC on Wednesday, April 1st, 2015
> >    Votes must be received by 23:59:59 UTC on Tuesday, April 14th, 2015
> 
> I have a feature request for future ballots:
> Could you use a date format that is understood by date(1)?
> The current one is not:
> 
> $ date -d '00:00:00 UTC on Wednesday, April 1st, 2015'
> date: invalid date '00:00:00 UTC on Wednesday, April 1st, 2015'

So:
Voting period starts      Wed Apr  1 00:00:00 UTC 2015
Votes must be received by Tue Apr 14 23:59:59 UTC 2015


Kurt