{
  "id": 5419,
  "title": "why cutoff at 23:55 UTC?",
  "url": "/competitions/ams-2014-solar-energy-prediction-contest/discussion/5419",
  "author_name": "Isaac van Asselt",
  "post_date": "2013-08-16T12:49:20.510000",
  "votes": 1,
  "comment_count": 0,
  "views": 768,
  "content": "<p>train.csv: &quot;The solar energy was directly measured by a pyranometer at each Mesonet site every 5 minutes and summed from sunrise to 23:55 UTC of the date listed in each column.&quot;</p>\n<p>-&gt; does this mean the train data does not provide radiation measurement till sun down? UTC 23:55 is before sun down in Oklahoma right?</p>\n<p>-&gt; next question would be: why? Is there any reason not to want to estimate/predict solar power early evening?</p>\n<p>thanks!</p>",
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      "postDate": "2013-08-16T12:49:20.510Z",
      "content": "<p>train.csv: &quot;The solar energy was directly measured by a pyranometer at each Mesonet site every 5 minutes and summed from sunrise to 23:55 UTC of the date listed in each column.&quot;</p>\n<p>-&gt; does this mean the train data does not provide radiation measurement till sun down? UTC 23:55 is before sun down in Oklahoma right?</p>\n<p>-&gt; next question would be: why? Is there any reason not to want to estimate/predict solar power early evening?</p>\n<p>thanks!</p>",
      "votes": 1
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