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This note card is edited to include basic information about the election such as start and end times and dates and how many positions are being elected (how many choices the voter must make)

// example time in UTC start 2010-12-01T08:00:00
// example time in UTC end 2010-12-02T07:59:59

// election start and end times must be specified in UTC time (that is SL time + 8 Hours)
 
start 2014-03-01T08:00:00
end 2014-03-02T07:59:00
title "SLSA March 1st 2014"
help "Contact the board for instructions or see the post in the SLSA forum for detailed instructions."
positions 2

The values for start and end are in Universal Time Coordinates (UTC).
This is used because the LSL function llGetTimestamp() returns time in UTC. UTC presents a point in time as YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss where YYYY is the four digit year, MM is the two digit month, DD is the two digit day, T is separator between date and time, HH is the two digit Hour in 24 hour format, mm is the two digit minute, and ss is the two digit seconds value. Second Life Time (SL Time) is 8 hours behind UTC when summer time is off, and 7 hours behind UTC when summer time is on in California. So because SL time is 8 hours behind UTC, if we want to have a 24 hour election starting at midnight (00:00 SL time), then we need to specify the start time in UTC as 08:00 (because 08:00 UTC is 00:00 SLT).

positions in the config card is the number of selections that the voter will have to make (not the number of candidate choices).

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