Working hours are not scheduled hours
Posted on: September 2, 2024 at 10:28:02 CT
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You stupid idiot the article admits they are just guessing and BSing:
All times are adjusted to local time, based on where the president was at that particular time, so first and last meetings are based on where the president was on that day/time vs. Eastern time.
Days with no public schedule or diary, due to either redaction or vacation where no data was available, were excluded from the calculations.
In cases where the Factba.se platform could not discern a time or date automatically with a high degree of accuracy, the day in question was excluded from the calculation. The percent coverage is noted below in “Notes.”
For simplification, any day that ended after 11:59 p.m. was rounded to 11:59 p.m. in the evening. So if the last item on the schedule was 1:15 a.m., it was calculated at 11:59 p.m. for the purposes of the analysis.
For some earlier presidents, we used a “Daily Diary” (available from presidential libraries) that includes more presidential events outside of just appointments to determine their presidential office hours. For other presidents, including Trump, Biden, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, we used the “Daily Schedule” that’s released to the press pool. (Daily Diary is not currently available for these presidents.)
Notes
George H. W. Bush’s schedule is not available online from his presidential library at present.
Obama’s schedule begins on July 12, 2010, on his archived White House website. There are a number of days missing from the blog posts that listed his daily schedule and vacation days with no public schedule posted.
The George W. Bush Presidential Library has 338 days of his 2,922 days available online. This is a large enough statistical sample to estimate average first and last meeting times.
Data from the John F. Kennedy Library is available for the following dates: Jan. 25, 1961, through Nov. 20, 1963.
Data from the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library was mostly handwritten, resulting in fewer firm matches by the platform.
Edited by Calca at 10:29:04 on 09/02/24