[Nicholas_C]

Off topic: Why is this article dated December 2nd? It is still December 1st everywhere in the United States. Perhaps it was published after normal business hours on the 1st, thus defaulting to the 2nd as the official date? Just curious.

[thejosh]

Because maybe the internet is global and not every site on the internet is US time?

[Nicholas_C]

I assumed Nature is a US publication. Oops.

[ben1040]

Nature is published from London, the article was probably embargoed for publication on December 2 at midnight local time.

[greenburger]

Nature Publishing Group is based in London

[mkonecny]

The internet doesn't exist solely in the US. It spans GMT -5 through GMT -8. There are countries that are up to 16 hours ahead in time..

[eru]

> It spans GMT -5 through GMT -8.

Please explain.

[sanxiyn]

US mainland does span from GMT-5 to GMT-8.

[eru]

Oh, for some reason I assumed `it' meant the world.

[Nicholas_C]

I assumed Nature was a US publication. Oops.

[michael_storm]

Maybe their servers use UTC.