Yeah, I was kinda expecting answer like "I have a job and I'm a real man, don't make me laugh with your university you little kiddo". Let me disagree. On one side full job demands being more systematic etc., but on the other side after you go out of your job (probably sth like 16-18) you don't have to care about it anymore while my studies demand a lot of work on my own till late night. But that is probably a subject for a long discussion, so leave that alone. I think that I_love_Hoang_Yen's sentence "When you have a hobby (in this case, Codeforces), it is you who are supposed to sacrifice things to enjoy it." and what follows it sums everything up very well.

Yes, I kind of agree with that. It's something to discuss more in depth, you're right about that. Sorry if I offended you, it was not my intention.

Let's just say that Codeforces should hold contests at many different times, not always at 19:30 Moscow time, so that people from all over the world can take them. If you live in New Zealand, for example, the way the contests are now, you can never take part in them, because they are always held at 4:30 AM.

I just want to say that I had been waking up at 2:00AM to write a Codeforces round for two years when I was in high school. And, of course, at 4:30AM I went to bed to get some sleep before going to school at 8:00AM.

My point since the beginning of topic is that the community don't need to care about you. While you keep stressing your problems.

And you should not judge whether it is easy or comfortable for me or anyone (e.g. in this case Swistakk), because you don't know about what we have to do in order to participate in contests.

The community shouldn't care particularly about me, about you or about anyone.

The community should care about the world, because people from all over the world take part in Codeforces contests, and it looks like all the contests are held at 19:30 Moscow time. That's very selfish if you ask me.

I don't think it's fair that a whole section of the world can't take part in contests because they either coincide with school/work hours or because it's really late in the night (4AM / 5 AM).

I firmly believe contests should start to have more varied times, like they have at TopCoder (8 AM, 13:30 PM and 22 PM).

Yes, many people are unfortunate because of this timezone thing. We're in a very sad world.

But the reason CF rounds are fixed is discussed many times, and it is because some admins need to be online during the round, not because they are selfish.

Admin is a tough job, and it's not like they can hire random people around the world to do it.

So you're trying to tell me that the only moment admins can be online is from 19:30 to 21:30 or 22:00? They must have a really tight schedule...

Come on, that's not an excuse! They can easily adjust contests anyway. If they need to be online, hold contests at 16:30, 19:30 and 22:30, at the very least. That would allow a lot more countries to take part in contests and it's not a hassle for admins from Russia either.

Obviously, being online doesn't mean just 2 hours of contest time. It involves online before the contest start to check if there is no issue that may lead to problems, until after judging of all solutions, checking for cheaters, waiting for rating updates to complete and then make sure that everything is now still in place (for example, unlock pages that are locked during contests).

Unless the online time is like 14 hours, it still can be adjusted at least a couple of hours forward or a couple of hours back. Don't try to throw the blame on me and try to be the good guy by defending admins and the community in general, because anyone who gives it just a little bit of thoughts can see that contest times can be adjusted at the very least by a couple of hours, and that alone would allow a lot of people who usually can't compete to take part in contests.