search

icpc / ccs-specs

Contest Control System specifications
https://ccs-specs.icpc.io
9 stars 9 forks source link

Description of the countdown_pause_time is unclear for "/contests" endpoint #166

Open johnbrvc opened 8 months ago

johnbrvc commented 8 months ago

The description of the countdown_pause_time property states:

The amount of seconds left when countdown to contest start is paused. At no time may both start_time and countdown_pause_time be non-null.

This is inconsistent with the expected/typical use (case) described below the property list:

start_time should be set to null and countdown_pause_time to the number of seconds left to count down.

The description and the typical use case should be consistent and clear in the meaning of countdown_pause_time.

niemela commented 8 months ago

I'm sorry, I don't see the inconsistency? Could you elaborate?