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Re:Apple loses patent claim against Samsung in Tokyo court by alokm on Friday August 31, 2012 @04:01AM (#4458754)
Interesting URL it says Sept 1 for a story dated 31 aug. I wonder is it a conservative estimate of the date to take all time zones in consideration.
Re:Apple loses patent claim against Samsung in Tokyo court by waiwai933 on Friday August 31, 2012 @04:08AM (#4458770)
Probably not anything that interesting or considerate.

31 August is the time in Japan right now (as well as Europe and most of the US), so the dateline makes sense.

1 September is the date the story will appear in print, according to the article's footnote. I wouldn't be surprised if the software was focused on the actual newspaper when it was designed, and so the URL will correspond to the actual newspaper (in case of citations, etc.).