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#archive-notes 2025-08-07

Thursday19 messages7 participantstimes are UTC
Highlights from this day
  • tenpence — exports are one file per channel per day because thats the shape the logger writes 16:31
  • VialBot — Testing queue: 7 submissions open, 109 awaiting dispatch. 16:36
  • first_month_fi — the redaction marker links to the policy page so nobody has to guess what happened 17:06
  • first_month_fi — one timezone one date forever is the least confusing option available and it still confuses everybody 17:14
  • first_month_fi — does the archive say why a day is unavailable if you quote a date from here say UTC, the regional channels have had real confusion about it 17:16
TE

are reply quotes preserved if the quoted line got redacted

exports are one file per channel per day because thats the shape the logger writes

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MM

the timestamp confusion is the most asked thing in here and ive answered it every year since 2024

VB

Testing queue: 7 submissions open, 109 awaiting dispatch.

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CH

you ask and it goes. you dont have to give a reason and you wont be asked for one

FM

UTC always, no seasonal adjustment, which is why evenings in australia land on the previous date, your mileage will differ

FM

if you quote a date from here say UTC, the regional channels have had real confusion about it

i was wrong about the timestamps for ages, i assumed they shifted with summer time. they dont

FM

the redaction marker links to the policy page so nobody has to guess what happened

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one timezone one date forever is the least confusing option available and it still confuses everybody

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does the archive say why a day is unavailable
if you quote a date from here say UTC, the regional channels have had real confusion about it

ah, timezone thing

CH

there is no window on a redaction request, any published line at any time