I’m in Australia and it is already 1 July here, but I’m assuming that the MoP prepatch won’t be available until some time tomorrow my time?
Is there an exact time mentioned for when it will be launched?
PS I just saw a comment on another post from an Oceanic player saying 2nd July 8am our time, so I’m assuming thats right?
5 pm CST tomorrow
So, according to google that should be uh…2 am ACT, I think
I am confused by the CST and ACT, I’m on Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT) so, yeah, the whole timezone thing. I will just log on tomorrow my time after I have breakfast and see if it works, probably the best way. 
Yeah, it’s tomorrow at 8am.
Big patches like new expac or pre-patch pretty much always occur at 8am AEST.
If maintenance isn’t extended, servers should be back up by 8am for us Aussies.
What’s ACT? Are you talking about the Territory?
If you mean ACST, it would be 7:30am for them.
5pm CDT. i know us americans dont usually swap CST and CDT when talking locally, but since we were talking internationally, thought I’d mention it. Not trying to be pedantic.
Nevermind, the 3pm PDT time is for launch on July 21st. Prepatch just goes live on July 1st with server restarts.
I assumed “ACT” meant “Australian Central Time” or something to that effect. Didn’t know it was the name of a territory, I’m not familiar with the country
Time zones are stupid and we just need one global time is the lesson to be learned here. It’s currently 10:54 CST (Central Standard Time) if that gives any frame of reference. And yeah I think you’re right, my mistake I was counting backwards (12 pm June 30th at the time of my post) instead of forwards (12 pm July 1st)
The convertor I use always adjusts for daylight savings or not anyway.
potentially down until 12 pm Wednesday for NZ and until about 2pm+ for Australians.
I was excited for pre-patch until I realised it last three weeks.
I could have saved a month sub. half jokn
UTC already exists.
Nope, the fact that we must accept that release times for anything are going to be messy so long as we continue to have a global computer network is the lesson to be accepted here.
And dividing it into +1, +2 etc. kind of defeats the purpose of it being a universal time
Everyone being on a universal time would just create different points of confusion. It really boils down to picking the best system for a particular application.
A universal time doesn’t stop people from having a local time
Which is exactly what we have. UTC and local time zones.
Awesome. So why do people ruin it by
its easy math or is that the problem
I’m not sure you understand how time zones work or their purpose.
UTC is a universal time. UTC+1 is a local time.
The point of a local time is to tell you basically ‘at a given time, is the sun out, and what’s it doing’ in that location, which is not something that can be achieved with a universal time.
We already have a perfectly good universal time reference. People just need to understand how to convert that to their local time.
I’m aware. I know what a local time is. But why overcomplicate it that way when I already have a local time with CST?
Better yet, why are people taking what was supposed to be a joke in the first place so seriously
CST is a legacy system interfacing with a newer system so there’s some cruft.
As far as jokes, well, my excuse is nyquil, idk about everyone else.