200,000 node winner

[blakem]

We just reached node #200,000, and the results from the contest are in. (drumroll, please)

First of all, node #200,000 was indeed a non-normal node, so the timestamp of #200,001 will be used instead (though it doesn't actually change who won).

The actual timestamp is Sun Sep 22 23:54:58 2002 which was a mere 5 minutes 2 seconds away from gri6507's guess of Mon Sep 23 00:00:00 2002

Congratulations gri6507, you've just won a limited edition perlmonks mug!!!

p.s. See the list of entries to find out how close others came.

p.p.s. The create time was determined by the output of the following script:

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
use strict;
use LWP::Simple;
use XML::Simple;

my $node    = shift || 200_001;
my $url     = "http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=$node&displaytype=xml";
my $xml     = get($url) || die "Can't get $url";
my $parsed  = XMLin($xml);
my $created = $parsed->{'created'};

if ($parsed->{id} == $node) {
  print "Node $node was created at $created\n";
} else {
  print "Data doesn't match node ($parsed->{id} != $node)\n";
}

-Blake

[grinder]

So the Monk Who May Not Be Named decides to post a node, et alors?

What's for you to say whether this is normal or not? A posted node is a posted node. What if it were a pmdevil posting a patch? The real question is, if you take node 200 000 into account, does it change the winner?

Did you really think there would be no funny games played when the counter rolled over?


print@_{sort keys %_},$/if%_=split//,'= & *a?b:e\f/h^h!j+n,o@o;r$s-t%t#u'

[blakem]

I actually anticipated some funny business with node 200,000 which is why I reserved the right to use the first "normal" node over 200,000 if something screwy happened.

And no, it doesn't change who won. The difference in createtimes between 200,000 and 200,001 is less than a minute. The second place guess is off by more than half an hour. The winner was only off by 5 minutes.

-Blake

[virtualsue]

What's for you to say whether this is normal or not? A posted node is a posted node.

Node 200,000 came into existence quite some time before node 199,999 did. I think that qualifies as well toward one or the other side of normal. :-)

[jcwren]

Node 200,000 came into existence quite some time before node 199,999 did.

Your facts are wrong. Node 199,999 existed before node 200,000, and the system won't have it any other way. Node 199,999 simply ceased to exist after a short period.

--Chris

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