I’m pretty sure they mean that season 24 ends in North America - December 5 at 5pm PST, not PDT which would an hour different. Am I being too pedantic in expecting official posts to pay better attention to details like this?
I would assume they are referring to the timezone in which their headquarters reside, aka PST. However they refer to it as PDT (Pacific Daylight Time) as it includes the daylight savings adjustment during this time of year. Hence the 1 hour difference.
Not all states use this format universally the same either. Take Indiana and Illinois for example. There are portions of the state where they ignore the daylight savings adjustment. *shrug
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This time of year, daylight saving is over. Has been for a while now. Hence the reason for my post.
Well, if you consider awhile 2 weeks, sure.
Point is, that is what PDT stands for. They probably wrote the blog before the daylight change and didn’t update it. lol
No matter when the blog was written, December 5th wouldn’t be practicing daylight saving. Details…
You must be fun at parties.
I am, actually. But I don’t post official company blogs while drunk.
Actually in checking back with previous postings the past year or so, ALL of them have been listed with PDT.
So I think that is their standard go-to for the posts. And they are probably using it as Pacific Daylight Time as its the adjusted version,depending on the time in the year. PDT is PDT, regardless if its the middle of Summer, or middle of Winter.
Whereas UTC variant PST does not adjust, and could confuse people during the Daylight saving portion of the year.
Though honestly, why anyone thinks that cutting off the top of a blanket and sewing it onto the bottom actually changes anything is beyond me.
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Yes, naturally.
Next.
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It was proposed to remove it in EU, dunno where that went though.
But given that I live above the arctic circle it’s never dark during summer and it’s never light during winter anyway, so I really have no opinion one way or another.
I am in Arizona. We don’t change, either.
Half the year with L.A., half the year with Denver.
Being woken up at 4.00am with sunrise and birds chirping would bite (it’s bad enough it happening at 5.00am), and being able to come home from work, have some dinner and still having 3+ hours of daylight and warmth to do what you want is some pretty good QoL if you ask me.
They also wrote CEST instead of CET for the EU region where daylight savings ended on 31st October.
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What ever you see something will happen at “x time Pacific” from Blizzard :
Add 3 hours and that is New York time or east coast America time.
Or, for those of us Down Under, add anywhere between 12 and 17 hours and get your local time zone.
Blizz would do the whole planet a favour if they would duplicate the times in UTC in all their announcements. I mean, how difficult it would be…
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This is Diablo 3. We’re lucky we even get a post announcing the end of season these days.
And where I live daylight savings has just started and not over Hence why your post makes no sense, You don’t have Daylight savings so no one has daylight savings
Do you also think that when it’s 2 pm where you are it’s 2 pm the world over
This happens to me in the summer months anyway.
We are north enough where I live that the sky starts lighting up around 4-4:30AM and doesn’t get really dark to nearly 11PM. (at its peak)
Now, its not getting really light till well after 8am and dark by 5. And getting shorter. By December 25th our day from sunrise to sunset is going to be just over 6 hours. And that’s when the sun is actually visible considering it will be barely above the horizon to my south all winter long.
So not every part of the world needs an adjustment. Thank you Benjamin Franklin.
No, but NA, as the post is referring to, sure doesn’t. 
Its 5pm on Sunday… its always 5pm on Sunday. Ok, we can all move on.