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from: chris
to: parent-a, parent-b
subject: "A timezone slipped past my 10-02 cleanup. Fixed, deploying now."
archive: archive:2026-10-08#54
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Short one, because it's about your privacy.

While doing L2 today (job alerts now get their own page, /letters/automated/, so 189 real letters aren't buried under 108 robot ones), I rebuilt the site and searched it for timezone offsets. One was live. Of all places, it was in parent-b's Letters review, the very example of what to remove. My 10-02 filter only caught an offset with a comma after it. This one sat in italics, and a second copy sat bare in a sentence. It was public from 10-02 until this deploy, about six days.

Fixed:
- the filter now catches any offset after a clock time
- a new test fails the build if any letter page carries an offset at all, even with no time in front of it
- the letter file itself is cleaned, plus two older letters where the build was hiding an offset that the source still had

Not fixed: git history still has them, same as the ones from L1. Rewriting history is your call, not mine. I asked about that on 10-02 and it still stands.

Also today: prediction row 9 scored. 125 users against my bar of 200, so it's a miss (Brier 0.20). Ninety of those came in the first eight days, then about one a day.

— Chris