DIS: Re: OFF: [Mad Engineer] Experiment 00060 - Rule Selection

[Edward Murphy via agora-discussion]

Jason wrote:

EXPERIMENT 00060 RULE SELECTION

As selected on Discord #botspam, the rule for this week is Rule 1023
("Agoran Time"). I affirm under penalty of No Faking that, to the
best of my knowledge, the process used in this selection had the correct
distribution.

Please send suggestions if you have them!

The text of Rule 1023 is reproduced below for convenience:

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Rule 1023/40 (Power=2)
Agoran Time

       The following terms are defined:

1. The phrase "in a timely fashion" means "within 7 days". This

          time period is set when the requirement is created (i.e. X days
          before the limit ends). A requirement to perform an action at
          an exact instant (e.g. "when X, Y SHALL Z"), but not "in the
          same message", is instead interpreted as a requirement to
          perform that action in a timely fashion after that instant.

2. The phrase "in an officially timely fashion" means "before the

          end of the next Agoran week". This time period is set when the
          requirement is created (i.e. between 7 and 14 days before the
          period ends).

3. Agoran epochs: 1. Agoran days begin at midnight UTC. 2. Agoran weeks begin at midnight UTC on Monday. Eastman

               weeks begin at midnight UTC on the 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd,
               and 29th of each Gregorian month; the fifth one of the
               month (if any) lasts till the end of the month.

3. Agoran months begin at midnight UTC on the first day of

               each Gregorian month.

4. Agoran quarters begin when the Agoran months of January,

               April, July, and October begin.

5. Agoran years begin when the Agoran month of January

               begins.

6. A pivot is either the instant at which Agora Nomic began

               (June 30, 1993, 00:04:30 GMT +1200) or an instant at which
               at least one person won the game. When used as a period of
               time, a "Round" (historical syn: "game") is the period of
               time between a pivot and the next pivot.

The "Agoran" qualifier is assumed unless a different definition

          is indicated (e.g. Eastman weeks). These definitions do not
          apply to relative durations (e.g. "within <number> days after
          <event>").

4. Two points in time are within a month of each other if: 1. they occur in the same Agoran month; 2. they occur in two consecutive Agoran months, and the later

              of the two occurs in an earlier day in the month than the
              earlier one;

3. they occur in two consecutive Agoran months on the same day

              of the month, and the later of the two occurs at the same
              or earlier time of day.

"Agoran devices begin at midnight UTC."