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Subject: If banned on 2/29 for 1 year...
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You'll be relieved of your ban on March 1st.

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  • 02.29.2012 10:06 PM PDT

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Posted by: prometheus25
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Posted by: prometheus25
Programming languages take into account any date anomalies, so there is no foreseeable way a ban on a leap day could amount to any crazy outcomes.
"you go believe " facts are just better sounding lies...


What?


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  • 02.29.2012 10:12 PM PDT
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Challenge accepted.

  • 02.29.2012 10:13 PM PDT

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  • 02.29.2012 10:15 PM PDT

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Challenge accepted.


Wait, who are you going to ban?

  • 02.29.2012 10:15 PM PDT

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Posted by: bobcast
Challenge accepted.


Bobcats got his meowmix face on...

  • 02.29.2012 10:16 PM PDT

meh...


Posted by: borrowedchief
The ban system hands out bans in days. So a 365 day ban would be just that.

I think.


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  • 02.29.2012 10:20 PM PDT
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  • 02.29.2012 10:30 PM PDT

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So basically the system just couldn't unban you... ever?

  • 02.29.2012 10:47 PM PDT

Posted by: sharpace77
So basically the system just couldn't unban you... ever?
It would depend on how each blacklist is stored. For example, the date the blacklist was created and its expiration. If that is how they're stored, it would mean (assuming the database table uses the most suitable data type) that a date like '2013-02-29' would not be accepted when trying to blacklist someone, and the blacklist would also be rejected.

I also don't think it's a case of an account being "unbanned" by the system either, at least when you look at it as each account having its own state. In other words, I don't think each account, that is determined to be blacklisted or not, is "unbanned" at some point. I think that all accounts are in a single state - either blacklisted or unblacklisted (or neither) - until it's determined through a call to the database whether they are or not. If that's true, "unblacklisting" does not exist, because that blacklist state would only be determined when a specified action occurs (eg. attempting to make a post).

Some people might get the impression that "unblacklisting" exists because (and this is an assumption) the details of who is currently blacklisted are cached every so often on each web server. The illusion being that every x minutes or so the site runs a program that "unblacklists" people who should be. This would also help explain why occasionally people who were blacklisted aren't able to make posts for a short time after date of the blacklist expiration (assuming that still happens).

  • 02.29.2012 11:29 PM PDT
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Daz, can I be banned for a year, just to see if that could happen?

  • 02.29.2012 11:38 PM PDT

Honestly, this must be a joke. Child, listen, stop trying to defend yourself because clearly you are incapable of it. The only idiot in this thread is yourself, and trust me, it is obvious. So, how about you do as I asked earlier and log off, mommy and daddy wouldn't want you staying up this late.
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Posted by: IFailTrollHard
Daz, can I be banned for a year, just to see if that could happen?

Adding a year to 29/2/2012 would result in 28/2/2013.

Nothing would happen.

[Edited on 03.01.2012 12:05 AM PST]

  • 03.01.2012 12:03 AM PDT

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This is equivalent to asking. If I'm banned for a month on 31/1 What happens?

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  • 03.01.2012 1:48 AM PDT
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But what IF the ban would last 4 years?

  • 03.01.2012 2:17 AM PDT

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  • 03.01.2012 2:47 AM PDT
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I'd guess that somewhere a bit closer to the metal than C# is, the dates involved are actually Unix time stamps. That's a single integer that is (almost) defined by how many seconds have passed since midnight on January 1, 1970. In Unix time each day is 86,400 seconds. That's not always actually the case because of leap seconds that scientists use just to mess with us, but that's what Unix time assumes.

So when a function is used that adds one year to a date, that probably eventually translates the date into Unix time, then adds 31,536,000 seconds onto that Unix time stamp, and wherever that ends up, I'll guess that's when the ban expires.

  • 03.01.2012 3:40 AM PDT

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I think it would just last to March 1st.

  • 03.01.2012 4:32 AM PDT

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I don't think there is such thing as a year long ban.

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  • 03.01.2012 4:35 AM PDT

Who the hell do you think I am?

I'm pretty sure it unbans by the amount of days, and not on a set date.

  • 03.01.2012 4:52 AM PDT

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I'd assume you'd just get unbanned on March 1, 2013.

  • 03.01.2012 5:19 AM PDT

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Posted by: THE SALTY CHIP
I'm pretty sure it unbans by the amount of days, and not on a set date.

I believe that this is correct. Even if it went by a set date, I wouldn't think that things such as leap years would be a factor.

[Edited on 03.01.2012 6:01 AM PST]

  • 03.01.2012 5:56 AM PDT
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Why are you reading my signature? Who actually opens these things and reads them!

And as always, SEND ME A PM. Please. Or really bad things will happen to you.

I guess we'll find out in a year when people return from their 1 year bans. Or we won't, maybe they fall into a void and never return.

So, the easiest way to tell is to see if a thread like this crops up next year with an answer, if no thread appears, then there must be an anomaly in the ban system.

  • 03.01.2012 6:38 AM PDT

Posted by: THE SALTY CHIP
I'm pretty sure it unbans by the amount of days, and not on a set date.
I disagree.

Try to create a new blacklist on the Blacklist Management page of a group you control and specify the number of days you want the blacklist to last for. You can't do it; there's no option for that. Even if you mention that you can do it by manually adding the number of days you want to blacklist for to the current date, what you input still ends up being the expiration date.

Not to mention that banning by days doesn't account for how you're able to successfully blacklist someone for only 5 minutes.

  • 03.01.2012 6:57 AM PDT

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  • 03.01.2012 7:16 AM PDT

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  • 03.01.2012 7:22 AM PDT

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