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The description of the "New Years Eve" hat states:

Post an upvoted question or answer on December 31

I've clearly posted multiple answers that got upvoted today, yet the hat didn't award yet.

Is this by design, with the hat only awarding on in the new year, if you've met the requirements in the old year, or is it a bug and should the hat be awarded already?

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  • Are you sure you posted them today UTC? As SE works on that time zone.
    – Ronan
    Dec 31, 2011 at 13:06
  • @RonanForman Yes, I've added links to the answers.
    – alexanderpas
    Dec 31, 2011 at 13:13
  • I've already gotten it, but it took the better part of an hour for me too. The job that awards this hat is probably just slow because having an upvoted post isn't really a volatile condition.
    – a cat
    Dec 31, 2011 at 15:09
  • It took a while for it to pop for me, but eventually it did. I waited about an hour.
    – user11502
    Dec 31, 2011 at 15:20
  • I'm actually waiting on several hats to pop at the moment. Something just seems sluggish.
    – LessPop_MoreFizz
    Dec 31, 2011 at 18:24
  • I got it almost instantly... for a question though, don't know if that's important.
    – John the Green
    Dec 31, 2011 at 20:20
  • I also missed it on an answer that should have qualified
    – Dave McClelland
    Jan 1, 2012 at 1:25
  • I don't have it either.
    – user821
    Jan 1, 2012 at 12:41
  • I just received mine.
    – hammar
    Jan 1, 2012 at 18:50
  • Just got mine too
    – Dave McClelland
    Jan 1, 2012 at 19:27

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Reset to default
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The scheduler service wasn't restarted after the security update caused a reboot of the server, so no hats were awarded since then. I have restarted it (and also set it to always be started automatically), so a huge bunch of hats just got awarded. Sorry about that!

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