{
  "id": 3705,
  "title": "Start time, end time for Test day",
  "url": "/competitions/flight/discussion/3705",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2013-01-27T23:38:16.137Z",
  "votes": null,
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  "content": "<p>Dear Admins,</p>\r\n<p>what is the UTC time for the start date/time for each test day and end date/time for each test day.</p>\r\n<p>There are way too many numbers floating around</p>\r\n<p>for example for the set 11/12/2012 what would the numbers be</p>\r\n<p>Thanks</p>",
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    {
      "id": "19746",
      "postDate": "01/27/2013 23:38:16",
      "content": "<p>Dear Admins,</p>\r\n<p>what is the UTC time for the start date/time for each test day and end date/time for each test day.</p>\r\n<p>There are way too many numbers floating around</p>\r\n<p>for example for the set 11/12/2012 what would the numbers be</p>\r\n<p>Thanks</p>",
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    {
      "id": "19973",
      "postDate": "02/03/2013 09:32:07",
      "content": "<p>This is clarified <a href=\"https://www.gequest.com/wiki/FlightQuest.Data\">on the wiki</a>:</p>\r\n<p>[quote]</p>\r\n<p>For each day in the test period (first for the public leaderboard, and later for the final evaluation), we will select a random time (uniformly chosen between 9am EST and 9pm EST) and select all of the flights in the air at that cutoff time. You will be\r\n provided with relevant data for each day that would be available at the chosen cutoff time.</p>\r\n<p>Your model must be structured so that it makes each test day's final test data set predictions based on no information in the final evaluation test data other than the information from that day, which will be in an appropriately named folder.</p>\r\n<p>The relevant data is divided into folders by day. For these purposes, a &quot;day&quot; includes all of the time from 1amPST/4amEST/9amUTC on that day until the same time on the next day. So Nov. 11, 2012 is considered to be from 9am UTC on Nov. 11, 2012 until 9am\r\n UTC on Nov. 12, 2012.</p>\r\n<p>[/quote]</p>",
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    {
      "id": 19973,
      "author_name": "benhamner",
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      "post_date": "02/03/2013 09:32:07",
      "content": "<p>This is clarified <a href=\"https://www.gequest.com/wiki/FlightQuest.Data\">on the wiki</a>:</p>\r\n<p>[quote]</p>\r\n<p>For each day in the test period (first for the public leaderboard, and later for the final evaluation), we will select a random time (uniformly chosen between 9am EST and 9pm EST) and select all of the flights in the air at that cutoff time. You will be\r\n provided with relevant data for each day that would be available at the chosen cutoff time.</p>\r\n<p>Your model must be structured so that it makes each test day's final test data set predictions based on no information in the final evaluation test data other than the information from that day, which will be in an appropriately named folder.</p>\r\n<p>The relevant data is divided into folders by day. For these purposes, a &quot;day&quot; includes all of the time from 1amPST/4amEST/9amUTC on that day until the same time on the next day. So Nov. 11, 2012 is considered to be from 9am UTC on Nov. 11, 2012 until 9am\r\n UTC on Nov. 12, 2012.</p>\r\n<p>[/quote]</p>",
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