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It was posted on September 30 ~10pm UTC, so people had about 4 days to decide.

If it was posted Monday, September 30 at 22:00 UTC and the deadline was Thursday, October 3 at 20:00 UTC, that's less than three days.

It's 2 days, 22 hours.

He’s a PHP dev, you can’t honestly expect him to be able to count.