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14:35(UTC) is the best time for a contest, don't change it often!
By ZengDingjun_EggArmy, history, 6 weeks ago, In English

The recent contest often have strange time, what's the reason?

The old time of the next contest(9:05 at UTC+9) is good for me, why changed again?

The strange time will make our Asiatics can't do the contest. If you want me to get up at 4:35A.M for a contest? And chinese people to get up at 3:35 A.M for a contest?

14:35(UTC) is fit for most of people in the world(at least it's not too late), why change it often?

Please pardon my poor English.

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6 weeks ago, # |
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Changing contest time has multiple reasons, maybe it is for the writter to monitor better, maybe it is for Codeforces to test effects caused by contest change, however, as a participant, I can only choose to participate or not. Anyway, I do think making most contests to 14:35(UTC) is perfect, but time won't be the reason to drop——I'll still get up early to take part in. Codeforces is a platform for global users, its contest time shouldn't be friendly to only certain regions, so, I hope codeforces's changing-time attempt will make users all around the world have the chance to take part in the contests in their convinient time. Hope codeforces better!

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It is a great time for many people but you've to think about the writers at first. Imagine Monitoring a contest at 3:00 AM. These are International Contests, so there will be some time issues always. So, just try your best. Cause there's nothing else to do. If CodeForces make a rule that different peoples from different timezones can attend the contest according to their timezone. Then that would be the best possible solution. But for now, we've nothing to do.

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