unscientific debian users world survey

Ken Irving wrote:
> I've been messing around with timestamps and timezones lately, and was
> curious to see how posts to debian users might be distributed around
> the globe, as indicated in the message timestamp.
>
> My local archive of the du list is far from complete, as I tend to
> delete a lot of stuff and it only goes back about 3 years, with about
> 8000 messages currently stored.
>
> $ grep ^Date: ~/Mail/list/debian/user | \
> perl -ne 'print "$1\n" if m/([+-][01]\d\d\d)/' | \
> sort -n | uniq -c
> 1 -1200
> 72 -0900
> 791 -0800
> 875 -0700
> 806 -0600
> 1481 -0500
> 944 -0400
> 56 -0300
> 45 -0200
> 31 -0000
> 499 +0000
> 1082 +0100
> 736 +0200
> 52 +0300
> 4 +0400
> 43 +0530
> 1 +0545
> 9 +0700
> 150 +0800
> 49 +0900
> 9 +0930
> 101 +1000
> 5 +1030
> 93 +1100
> 16 +1200
> 20 +1300
>
> This simplistic view ignores daylight savings effects and any number of
> other complicating factors, but I think it gives a crude hint at the span
> of debian users around the world.
>
> I'd like to be able to extend the pipe to maybe plot a bar chart against
> a world map, but that'll have to wait.
>

Nicely done. Good idea!

Hugo

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