Date for release of Matlab R2013a

Following on from this question about the release date of R2012b, when will R2013a be officially released? I will accept the answer closest to the actual release date. Extra points (an upvote) will be awarded to anyone successfully predicting the release of a service pack.

My prediction: R2013a will be released on 6 March 2013

[Matt Tearle]

Is insider trading allowed...?

Also, is it just the date, or do you have to guess weight and sex as well? :)

[Daniel Shub]

Insider trading is definitely allowed. It might be funner if people try for weight, sex, number of bug fixes, etc also.

[Paul Kassebaum]

I put a 1:8 chance of it being female. 'why' you ask?

[Sean de Wolski]

Time to bet on 13b :) ?

[Walter Roberson]

So what was the actual answer? No later than March 8th 2013...

[Jason Ross]

The 8th.

[Daniel Shub]

According to wikipedia it was the 7th. I am pretty impressed with my original guess.

[Sean de Wolski]

It was out by 2236GMT-5 on March 7th.

Answer 1

[Daniel Shub]

I guess I should have made my prediction, as stated in the original question, of 6 March 2013 into an answer. I didn't expect to be closest (although the competition was pretty slight) and I definitely didn't think I would be within a day.

Answer 2

[Image Analyst]

I'm going with March 11, 2013. I think they'll put it out on a Monday to allow maximum time to handle users' installation questions. (Unlike governments who often release bad news on Fridays to reduce scrutiny by the press because it will be a weekend.) I've only been using the prerelease version a couple of days so far, but no major problems or bugs yet (just a few quirks and annoyances that were already in the R2012b version).

[Walter Roberson]

On the other hand, R2012b was released mid-week.

[Daniel Shub]

Walter, are you going to make a guess?

Answer 3

[kk]

I don't know the actual date but I bet its going to be around 11:15 pm

[Jan]

UTC?

[Sean de Wolski]

@Jan, as long as timezone info isn't given it allows you to never be off by more than 30ish minutes or and it can get you a couple of days.

[Daniel Shub]

Using a release time of 36 minutes past the hour giving a difference of 21 minutes, I am going with this is a below average guess.

[Sean de Wolski]

@Daniel, that is the time that I received the email saying it was up everywhere. It was up in different places at different times over the preceding few hours.