Flipping over 2025 and getting ready for 2026.

[jmanhart]

Changes

• Changed root redirect from /projects to /years
• Updated all countdown timers from 2025-08-18 to 2026-08-17
• Simplified timer logic (removed complex Friday calculations)
• Updated micro countdown text to "day till hackweek"

[seer-by-sentry]

Potential bug: Countdown timers now use a date string without a timezone, causing them to resolve to the user's local time instead of a single global time.

• Description: The application's countdown timers were changed to use a hardcoded date string, 2026-08-17T00:00:00, without a timezone specifier. Both the native Date constructor and the moment.js library interpret such strings in the user's local timezone. The previous implementation contained logic to synchronize the countdown to a specific moment in Pacific Time. As a result of this change, users in different timezones will see the countdown end at different absolute times, which can cause significant confusion for a globally coordinated event like a hackweek.

• Suggested fix: To ensure the countdown is synchronized globally, modify the date string to include a timezone. For example, use an ISO 8601 string with a UTC designator, such as '2026-08-17T07:00:00Z', to represent a specific moment (e.g., midnight Pacific Daylight Time). Alternatively, restore the logic that dynamically calculates the target time in a specific timezone.
  _{severity: 0.7, confidence: 0.95}

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[nikolovlazar]

LGTM! I do like the idea of redirecting to /years post-hackweek. Thanks for making these changes @jmanhart!