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It was definitely the 19th https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48882730 I am assuming this is some kind of bug.
They might use this bug as a reason to be able to extend it for another week or something.
Yeah when things like this have happened on fridays before they've reset everyone's limits etc. Would not be surprising if this is the pretext for something of this sort.