a question about 11:59:59 on november 30th

Most of my writing happens post-midnight (don't you just love homework?), but the words I put in count as part of the words from the day before, even though technically it is the day after. Does happen also on the night of November 30/December 1? Or do I have to compensate for that and submit the 50,000 words BEFORE midnight?

Yes, you'll have to write and submit the words before midnight, as that's when NaNo ends :)

Alrighty then. Thank you for the clarification.

You probably have your time zone set to the wrong time zone. That's why when you update your word count after midnight it's still counting as the same day.

I once learned the hard way you need to update your wordcount before midnight... One year I kept writing in bed (I was sick) until almost midnight but I never even considered getting up and turning my computer on to upload the wordcount, figured I would do it the next day... I never bothered validation and I only had 49.5 K or so, not 50, but it still would have been nice to get my actual wordcount under my name as I did write quite a lot that last night!

So yeah, make sure not to forget to upload your wordcount in time and remember that you need to be near a computer with internet on november 30th or it doesn't officially count :(

When I joined, it set my timezone to Pacific as the default. I left it alone even though I live on the east coast. The hours I keep made it convenient for my midnight to actually be 3am.

I finished before the 30th so it doesn't really matter.