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Penalty points for blogs posted past the due date?

ciorga

 I was just curious if there are penalty points for final projects posted past the due date in the Path to Programmable 3, or they compete in the challenge at the same rank as the projects submitted in time?

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    I've had a few people wrote back to me about some serious health issues they had during the program period. When I learn about personal issues like this I usually give an extension, which is my policy for all my programs. But this should be for the final project. Credit for the training blogs has been closed for awhile. As for the closing time of day, my feeling has always been that we have people in different time zones, so the closing time should be within a day of the posted closing day. I had not considered penalty points. I suppose that's the point of the deadline, anything past that would not be eligible for any points. It seems like I need to take a closer look at deadlines. Thanks for making me think about it.

  • 0 in reply to rscasny

    I also had a really fun, related discussion with dev ops about time zones.

    When and where do you decide is the "last place on earth" and its timezone for "the final hour of the day"?

    There's an answer to this, it's the IDLW timezone.

    https://time.is/IDLW

    Should we use this as the time and timezone for ending competition entries? Or is that a bit over the top considering no one lives on these remote atolls :D Part of me would argue that when we say "end of day on a set date" that we kinda should use the IDLW timezone.

  • 0 in reply to cstanton

    I use the time zone as a grace period for cut-off days in my day job (I'm currently scrum mastering). If it's still "end of day" somewhere on the globe, I accept it. I plan for that.
    It's easier for me to take this into account, than to ask 100 colleagues to adapt to an artificial timezone.

  • 0 in reply to cstanton

    I like this.  Australians and New Zealanders probably would too.  Wink 

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