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The time of the recent contest.

By strange_voice, 9 years ago, In English

If you pay attention to the time of the recent contest you find out that the time of the most of them is unusual. Now i have few questin. Why does the time of the most of recent contest and the next one is a little unusual?And Is the time of the most of contests after the round #327 unusual, too?

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I guess Codeforces is trying to make contests suitable for school students specifically just like Codechef does in Lunchtime. I maybe wrong.

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    I think in more contries this time is not suitable for school student. For example in our contri, Iran, this time is'nt better than past. Now i see the time of the contest in the all capitals and the time of the contest in most of them was before 15-16. If i'm not right please tell me.

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      I think it is good time for Chinese Japanese and Australia, usual time for them is very bad I think

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        In India it's 14:30 which is perfect for students. Otherwise it's 22:00 in which everyone can participate easily.

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    How is 12:00 o'clock suitable for school students? If you mean that they participate from school, then these are awesome schools they have. In my school they hate me when I mention anything about contests. If I ask them to let me go out of the last lesson (12:00 — 13:00) to participate they'd suspend me.

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      If I ask them to let me go out of the last lesson (12:00 — 13:00) to participate they'd kick me out.

      If they kick you out, you can participate, isn't that what you want? :D

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      People usually don't go to school on Sunday.

      Anyway, if they hate you for competitive programming, maybe it's time to stop being a slave and find a school which would support you in it. (inb4 you can't: you can)

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        Some countries have school on sunday

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          Yes, but some doesn't mean most. Some people sleep at some time of the day, does that mean there can't be any contests?

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            Sorry, I misunderstood your comment, I thought you were talking about his school ( I don't know how I understood it like that lol)

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It's suitable for Vietnamese and SE-Asian people because it's about 4p.m in VietNam. Otherwise, guess what, It's 11.30 p.m in Vietnam and the contests always end at about 1.30 or 2 a.m . It's too late

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Bur i think it's better that the time of contest be usual because more people can participent in it. What do you think about it?

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According to this comment the unusual time of the next round is because that it is held in parallel with onsite competition.

In general I think that making some contests in unusual time is better than holding all contests in the same time because this gives a chance for more people who find the usual time not suitable.

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    Thank you so much for your answer. But why don't they hold the next round in another day (like friday ) in unusual time?

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      Don't anybody know the answer of my question? (Why don't they hold the contest in another day?)

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I think 19:30 MSK is a convenient time for most countries, don't change it frequently. In past contests, some problem setters changed the time for their own country --> very bad behavior.

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