Author: Stan Eisenstat
Subject: Re: [Cs223] West Coast Due Date
Date: Monday, 06 Apr 2020, 11:31:04
> Message Posted By: Unknown > > I understand, but if west coasters worked past 2 AM EST, they would incur > an extra late penalty. I apologize for bringing this up again, but my > concern is: > > If a west coaster and east coaster both wake up at 9 AM in their > respective time zones: Then the west coaster will have missed the live meetings of all of his morning classes. ===== > The east coaster has until 2 AM (17 hours) to turn it in without incurring > an extra late day. > > On the other hand, the west coaster has until 11PM (14 hours) to turn it > in before incurring another late day. If the west coaster takes the same > 16 hours as the east coaster, then they will incur one more late day than > the east coaster despite working the same amount of time. ... No. I release the assignment to everyone at the same time. If it is due at the same time (aka 2:00am EDT), then everyone has the same amount of time to work on it, irrespective of their time zone and sleep habits. How can anything else be fair? ===== ... > I understand that the spec was released at the same time for everyone, but > a 3 hour change in time zone effectively makes it so that west coasters' > days start 3 hours later than east coasters' days. And what about students in other time zones? 7 0000 14 0900 73 1200 2 1700 1 2300 4 0100 3 1000 1 1300 1 1900 1 0400 13 1100 5 1600 2 2130 --Stan-PREV INDEX NEXT