If you're not trying to shave off 7 days off the 2 days in bumping, maybe learn how to write better?
I went back and looked at the announcements... The 2 quotes your saying conflict were NOT made at the same time or near the same time...
when did Josh say that they were trying to shave off 7 days? back in early Dec?
Also, since it is down to 2 days now, He was successfully in reducing the time
It was actually very recently:
https://forums.butterflylabs.com/bfl-forum-miscellaneous/837-sunday-27-jan-2013-asic-update-discussion-thread-post13094.html#post13094