A picture is worth a thousand words: alt text http://www.juanformoso.com.ar/images/answered_closed.png
Perhaps the user had the browser opened for 8 hours?
A picture is worth a thousand words: alt text http://www.juanformoso.com.ar/images/answered_closed.png
Perhaps the user had the browser opened for 8 hours?
Most likely the user did have their answer started eight hours ago before they came back to finish their little riposte.
If it's still the same, there is no upper limit on when a question can still be answered so long as the answer was started before the question was actually closed.