Someone in Reddit was puzzled by the apparent absence of an announcement for something. I was similarly puzzled, these three all 'Messages: 0': <https://mail-archive.freebsd.org/mail/current/freebsd-announce.html> <https://mail-archive.freebsd.org/mail/current/freebsd-current.html> <https://mail-archive.freebsd.org/mail/current/freebsd-stable.html> I browsed away, to <https://mail-archive.freebsd.org/mail/> where, for the yearly archive (not for the current archive) it's noted that archive will be updated every week on Sunday morning. Does each current archive also begin at 0 on Sunday morning? The ambiguity is, partly, that for many people, a week begins on Monday.
Though a workweek generally is said to be Monday through Friday, calendars are still common in places such as USA with each week's line starting with Sunday and Christian (as a result of Jewish) religion defines it as the start of a week. It's not like everyone fully adopted ISO 8601 form the 80s and lives by it or else they wouldn't be upset with things like: zfs snapshot -r tank@`date -u "+%Y%m%dT%H%M%SZ"` for reasons other than I left out the dashes and colons (guess I could add fractional second too). Stating what is done with 'calendar math' is always wise and I thank whatever developers wanted to inform its users when these splits happen to begin with; it saved me refreshing a list when I needed to move to the next list more than once in the past.
Following the ISO standard (starting from Monday) seems better. Therefore, this report should be moved to Services->Mailing Lists
I agree that we should rotate the mailing list archive Monday morning 0:00 UTC. We should do the switch in the last week of Dec 2023, before Dec 30th.
The cron job for archive rotation will run on Monday instead Sunday from next week.