Why is the cut off time for Dec 16 on the ET Time Zone?

[voteronpaul08]

Can anyone tell us why the donations have to be made on the ET time zone?? Hypothetically speaking, If someone is at work on the west coast and gets home at 10 pm PT (DEC 16!) and makes a donation, it does not count? Seems a bit odd??

If the Time Zone matters when the Tea Party started (see here), then why not now?

Should they call they campaign at 1-877-RON-PAUL ???

Thanks!!

 

[greendiseaser]

Because 1 Day = TWENTY FOUR HOURS
Start your day in EST, end your day in EST.

Sorry man.
Its the way the world turns.
LITERALLY.

 

[wstrucke]

your money counts, just not towards the 12/16 total... it's a donation for the 24 hour period between 12 AM Eastern and 11:59 PM Eastern.

 

[Forefall]

Because, one day is 24 hours. If you were to extend it to every time zone, one day would constitute for a whole crapload of hours and totally skew time as we know it, inducing a nucyoular holocaust from Iran.

 

[mokkan88]

It counts toward the campaign, but it doesn't count towards the record. Record-keeping for the campaign officially began in the EST zone, so it ends in the EST zone.

 

[Mental Dribble]

You could use rolling time where each time zone had a diffrent start and end zone but the problem with that is it would ahve gotten way to complciated. This was the most direct, easy, best way to organize it all out.

 

[voteronpaul08]

Thanks for the input. At least I was able to send in my $212.12 on time

 

[Kuldebar]

1 day in these U.S.of A. seems to me would be a good measuring stick.

 

[samwe]

Can anyone tell us why the donations have to be made on the ET time zone?? Hypothetically speaking, If someone is at work on the west coast and gets home at 10 pm PT (DEC 16!) and makes a donation, it does not count? Seems a bit odd??

If the Time Zone matters when the Tea Party started (see here), then why not now?

Should they call they campaign at 1-877-RON-PAUL ???

Thanks!!

Those of us in Alaska and Hawaii usually know who the new president is before we go vote. So this is no big deal.

I just stayed up late on Saturday and donated early.

 

[sistertothewind]

officially ends 3am eastern

http://www.gambling911.com/Ron-Paul-121707.html

 

[IowaSupport]

It doesn't make sense to me that a donation timestamped at 11PM pacific time shouldn't be counted for the 16th's total.

I'd be very surprised if those donation don't count towards the record.

 

[Mani]

It doesn't make sense to me that a donation timestamped at 11PM pacific time shouldn't be counted for the 16th's total.

I'd be very surprised if those donation don't count towards the record.

That's a 26 hour day.

PST folks could have started donating last night at 9PM. So it was 9pm PST to 9pm PST.

 

[IowaSupport]

Using that logic, every day is a 26 hour day.

Using a rolling 24 hour clock, like...clocks use...a donation time stamped at 11PM on the 15th wouldn't count.

 

[Mani]

Using that logic, every day is a 26 hour day.

Using a rolling 24 hour clock, like...clocks use...a donation time stamped at 11PM on the 15th wouldn't count.

at 9pm PST. The transaction is recorded as 12AM EST. The servers are time stamping according to EST time.

 

[zzxf]

I am somewhat amused by all the CA donations coming in now.

 

[IowaSupport]

As I said, it simply doesn't make sense to me that the server would do the time stamping on its time - as I'm sure the transactions would have to go through credit card servers at some point - and those certainly aren't on EST.

Looks like the official numbers came out - and as I said, I'm surprised.