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Comment by prezjordan | Hacker News Reader

I feel like the perseon who answered this question is the same person who asked it. How could anyone stumble across this error?

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StackOverflow permits and even encourages people to ask questions and then answer their own questions.

All that matters is that the question/answer is of importance or interest to developers, not who asked or answered it.

Check John Skeets answer history :)

I think he's the #1 answerer on stackoverflow. He always answers extremely fast and correct. Sometimes i wonder if SO is his full time job. In any case, any senior developer who has worked a lot with time zones should have known where to look for the answer so it's not entirely unbelievable he could answer it so fast. The answer has also been edited, the first version, after 16mins, was just half as long.

Honestly it seems fairly obvious to me - "clocks changed" is kind of the first assumption you make when two time strings that appear very close together parse as far apart.

After that, it only takes some quick googling to figure out what happened at the end of 1927 that could affect things.

Especially given that he answered it 16 minutes after it was asked. No way this was chance.

It's a very common practice on StackOverflow to give a short answer first, then flesh out the rest with an edit later.

No, it's not chance – he asked on stack overflow because he knew the chances would be likely that someone would find the answer. Skeep is an extremely knowledgeable person and it shows in his history there, so I'm not surprised that he was able to come up with the answer.

Have a look at the comments, Skeet professed to knowing the solution beforehand. Still impressive nonetheless.

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