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Re:XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unrepl... by Aloisius on Saturday March 30, 2024 @10:25PM (#39880785)
> and doesn't work during Western holidays

? They worked on US Federal holidays.

MLK Jr. Day:

  Commit:     Jia Tan <[email protected]>
  CommitDate: Mon Jan 16 21:35:45 2023 +0800
Thanksgiving:

  Commit:     Jia Tan <[email protected]>
  CommitDate: Thu Nov 23 22:40:27 2023 +0800
Juneteenth:

  Author:     Jia Tan <[email protected]>
  AuthorDate: Wed Jul 19 23:36:00 2023 +0800
Washington's Birthday:

  Author:     Jia Tan <[email protected]>
  AuthorDate: Fri Jan 20 21:53:14 2023 +0800
New Years Day (Federal):

  Author:     Jia Tan <[email protected]>
  AuthorDate: Mon Jan 2 22:33:48 2023 +0800
Edit: Also my graphs don't seem to match yours. Did you account for the fact that US/Eastern is -0500 part of the year? I show a spike at what would be 7 am Eastern for both author dates https://imgur.com/a/QcJy16h and commit dates https://imgur.com/a/oMsbNOh and essentially no work being done after noon.
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