When to post to Hacker News and how many points to make it to the front page

Re:When to post to Hacker News and how many points to make i... by fredley on Sunday April 17, 2016 @12:49PM (#11515180)

Great stuff, but please normalise to UTC in future. Everyone (reading this) knows their own offset from UTC and can probably makes sense of the data directly in that format. For anything else I have to go and lookup the offset between that timezone and mine.

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Re:When to post to Hacker News and how many points to make i... by jmiserez on Sunday April 17, 2016 @12:57PM (#11515218)

(Disclaimer: I'm in Europe)

For a website with a US centric audience, I think it makes perfect sense to use a US timezone: The graphs match up well with the sleep/wake patterns in the EST timezone. This makes interpreting the data a bit easier, i.e you can easily tell that there is a morning rush, a lunch rush, etc. (although interestingly, the HN audience doesn't seem to have well-defined break hours as there is just one large peak per day).

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Re:When to post to Hacker News and how many points to make i... by Artemis2 on Sunday April 17, 2016 @02:00PM (#11515488)

> The graphs match up well with the sleep/wake patterns in the EST

I'd expect them to match more PST/PDT (-4h), that's where the Silicon Valley and YCombinator are.

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Re:When to post to Hacker News and how many points to make i... by ashitlerferad on Sunday April 17, 2016 @10:50PM (#11517450)

HN doesn't seem US centric, there are people from all over the planet here.

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Re:When to post to Hacker News and how many points to make i... by scoppini on Sunday April 17, 2016 @12:53PM (#11515201)

Not everyone knows the difference between their timezone and UTC. I always end up looking up the difference, and it really doesn't matter to me what timezone people use, so long as they state it.

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Re:When to post to Hacker News and how many points to make i... by nommm-nommm on Sunday April 17, 2016 @03:05PM (#11515760)

I don't know my offset from UTC offhand.

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