Patterns · Clock
What time do people upload?
1,682 uploads by 1,179 people, seen happening across 30 consecutive pairs of snapshots.
Seen whole, the curve looks nearly flat: the tallest hour does not reach 6.5% where an even split would give 4.2%. That flatness does not mean the hour is irrelevant.
The 13Z to 16Z band holds 385 uploads (22.9%), against the 16.7% of an even split.
| Hour UTC | Uploads | |
|---|---|---|
| 00Z | 66 | |
| 01Z | 76 | |
| 02Z | 65 | |
| 03Z | 50 | |
| 04Z | 40 | |
| 05Z | 34 | |
| 06Z | 60 | |
| 07Z | 58 | |
| 08Z | 70 | |
| 09Z | 80 | |
| 10Z | 74 | |
| 11Z | 68 | |
| 12Z | 83 | |
| 13Z | 91 | |
| 14Z | 109 | |
| 15Z | 92 | |
| 16Z | 93 | |
| 17Z | 63 | |
| 18Z | 65 | |
| 19Z | 83 | |
| 20Z | 73 | |
| 21Z | 66 | |
| 22Z | 59 | |
| 23Z | 64 |
Against an even split: χ² = 94.26 with 23 degrees of freedom.
The same clock, by continent
It means several clocks are laid on top of each other. Split by continent, each has its own hour.
| Continent | Uploads | Mean hour |
|---|---|---|
| EU | 749 | 12.80Z |
| NA | 494 | 20.84Z |
| AS | 177 | 7.71Z |
| SA | 155 | 19.88Z |
| OC | 93 | 4.89Z |
| AF | 13 | 14.79Z |
The mean hour is computed on the circle, not on a line: averaging 23 and 1 on a line gives 12, which is the opposite hour. Continents to the west upload across midnight, so without this they would land at midday.
The continent comes from the callsign prefix, not from where the person was that day.
The 30 windows are not daily: they run from 2.22 to 64.18 hours, 9 of them fall outside 20-28 h, and the snapshots were taken at 9 different UTC hours. A band can come out high for having fallen inside a longer window.