I’m fiddling around with my WordPress plugin and I added a feature to show posts sorted by what hour of the day they were posted, just because I wanted to see what that would look like. Of course, I already had an idea of what it would look like before I wrote it, and I was quite confused when what I made didn’t match my expectations. Geeks are funny that way.
I most often post either during lunch, or when I knock off work between 5pm and 6pm. So, what I expected to see was a mostly flat grid, with a spike in the noon hour, and then another spike at 5pm. What I got was…
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This shows how many of the blog’s posts are published by hour of the day. This can be useful to see what time of day sees the most posting activity. |
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| Midnight: | 7 |
(1%) |
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| 1:00: | 2 |
(0%) |
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| 2:00: | 1 |
(0%) |
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| 3:00: | 1 |
(0%) |
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| 4:00: | 0 |
(0%) |
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| 5:00: | 3 |
(0%) |
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| 6:00: | 5 |
(1%) |
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| 7:00: | 9 |
(2%) |
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| 8:00: | 13 |
(2%) |
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| 9:00: | 5 |
(1%) |
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| 10:00: | 20 |
(4%) |
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| 11:00: | 55 |
(12%) |
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| Noon: | 50 |
(11%) |
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| 13:00: | 19 |
(4%) |
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| 14:00: | 19 |
(4%) |
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| 15:00: | 13 |
(2%) |
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| 16:00: | 53 |
(12%) |
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| 17:00: | 43 |
(9%) |
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| 18:00: | 30 |
(6%) |
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| 19:00: | 29 |
(6%) |
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| 20:00: | 21 |
(4%) |
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| 21:00: | 12 |
(2%) |
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| 22:00: | 19 |
(4%) |
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| 23:00: | 10 |
(2%) |
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Have I been taking long lunches? Quitting early? Why are half of my lunch posts at 11am and the other half at noon? I could understand if they were all shifted forwards or backwards in time, depending on what time zone the server is in but…
<forehead slap>
Daylight savings time. Obviously the server is not taking part in the great American temporal hallucination that is DST.
I work from home, and my wife homeschools our children, so DST doesn’t really affect our lives except to annoy me twice a year.
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mom
The description is mine, so both the credit and blame should fall to me.