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Time zone...?
Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) Started conversation Aug 10, 2000
What time zone are your servers notionally working in? I only ask, because at 10:30am BST on a Thursday the front page is still showing "Editor's suggestions for Wednesday"...? This might work if the servers were located in California, perhaps... 
In the old, pre-"Ripley" days you used to be pretty good about switching over close to midnight - has it switched from automated to manual or somesuch?
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Biggy P (the artist phormerly known as phord) Posted Aug 10, 2000
I was just wondering why I could still see a wombat on the front page, thursday, what here? scenes of terrible devestation, it's realy bad and everything.
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World Service Memoryshare team Posted Aug 11, 2000
The title 'Editor's selection...' is changed manually, and I think we must've, um, forgot to change it on Thursday. We 'publish' the front page around an hour after we get in in the mornings, usually around 11 o'clock. That's not automated either! Hope that explains it 
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amdsweb Posted Aug 24, 2000
God you journalist computer types have it easy! You arrive mid-morning?!?
When do you go home then? 2 o'clock? 
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Peta Posted Aug 25, 2000
10am mid-morning? It's the start of the day for us!!
The official office hours are 10am - 6.00pm, but we usually work until about 7.00-7.30pm. We're allowed to be pretty flexible in the hours that we work, because we're not restricted by same kind of time restraints as others.
It really doesn't matter what time of day it is when you surf or write a global website...
h2g2 is a great place to work though, the general karma is wonderful...
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amdsweb Posted Aug 25, 2000
Fancy swapping for a week? I could do with a lie-in and some Karma
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- 1: Peet (the Pedantic Punctuation Policeman, Muse of Lateral Programming Ideas, Eggcups-Spurtle-and-Spoonswinner, BBC Cheese Namer & Zaphodista) (Aug 10, 2000)
- 2: Biggy P (the artist phormerly known as phord) (Aug 10, 2000)
- 3: World Service Memoryshare team (Aug 11, 2000)
- 4: amdsweb (Aug 24, 2000)
- 5: Peta (Aug 25, 2000)
- 6: amdsweb (Aug 25, 2000)
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