Problem 784. Cody Computer Part 4 : Are you a morning Cody player Addicted ?

Created by Aurelien Queffurust

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Richard Zapor on 22 Jun 2012

Aurelien, it might be nice if the assert had an error message (eg assert(isequal(y,y_correct),sprintf('%s','Time is ',datestr(now,'hh')))

Vincent on 22 Jun 2012

So, does this only work if you are clicking 'Submit' between 7 and 9 EST?

James on 23 Jun 2012

Nope. Tried at 7:08 AM EST, and got it wrong. What time zone are we dealing with here?

Aurelien Queffurust on 25 Jun 2012

Thanks Richard for the tip. I have now added the assert that you suiggested. In France it seems that you can solve it between 9 and 11 o'clock . I guess that these + 2 hours correspond to the difference with UTC (or GMT) .

James on 15 Jan 2013

That's why I used the NaN on my Prime Time problem that's similar to this one. isequal with NaN will return false. :-)

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Claudio Gelmi on 20 Mar 2013

I had to submit my solution at 4:30 am local time to be between 7 and 9...too sleepy to think about that :-)

J.R.! Menzinger on 21 Mar 2013

Ok!! this IS an argument! ;-)

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J.R.! Menzinger on 19 Mar 2013

this can be toped! ;-)

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James on 13 Jan 2013

At last, a bright side to having a screaming baby wake you up at an ungodly hour: An honest solution to a Cody problem. :-)

Aurelien Queffurust on 14 Jan 2013

excellent!

J.R.! Menzinger on 19 Mar 2013

hahahaha :-)

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Tim on 23 Jun 2012

This one is correct anytime.

Aurelien Queffurust on 26 Jun 2012

true! I won't change the test suite because your trick is really nice ;)

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