Great. Thanks for participating.

I think this is a limitation with using raster symbols as a symbol fill. You'll find the issue remins the same if you just draw a regular shape with the basic tools with that fill too, no need to involve a drawing tool. The issue here is that the symbol fill expects to be able to crop the part of the symbol that's outside the fill area, but that is impossible with images, because you cannot reduce them into lines and polys which you can chop into pieces like with vector symbols. The symbol fill fill style was defined well before raster symbols where a thing

Draw -> Symbols in Area is much more suited for this operation. It will even give you the option to randomly select from the grave group so they don't all look the same. You may need a couple of attempts to find the right values.

What Wyvern states is correct. That time is to allow it to become March 1st in every time zone.

So, here's my entry. Full size version is in my gallery. And everyone else who want to participate and haven't handed in yet, remember that to participate, you do need to hand in your image in this thread before the deadline (end of February), don't forget.

It's yours.