The Sunday afternoon Fishing event is on at 7am Monday morning.
It really confuses me and I really hate Mondays 
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If US servers (including the majority of WoW staff) were forced to view a calendar in Australian Eastern Standard Time, they would have fixed this issue a long, long time ago. It’s hardly game breaking, but it is incredibly frustrating, especially when the calendar and the clock underneath it are using completely different times within the same application.
It was also pretty embarrassing for an application to struggle to support time localization at the time WoW was created, let alone 2019.
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Actually it, like any other event, can vary in starting time depending on whether it’s daylight saving time here, and whether it’s daylight saving time in America.
To make it even more complicated, the American and Australian time changes don’t coincide.
Not having time-zone specific calendars is incredibly lazy and primitive. Magic the Gathering showed time-zone specific times back in 2001, and this game used to show them. - Until the “break it and call the remains a feature” team took over.
The reason given earlier in the thread for the calendar change was silly nonsense, as the statement it quoted was only referring to event times, and has nothing to do with why we cannot see those event times correctly on our calendars.
Still an issue in 2020.
Edit: Sorry about NECRO but lets hope this gets fixed in SL
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It’s not a necro when the complaint is as relevant as ever.
Twenty years ago games had the technology to show people all over the world the event times that were correct for their area.
Ten years ago, when I began playing Warcraft, the calendar showed the correct event time for whichever realm you were on.
These days all the calendar times for events on Australian realms are completely wrong, and each time America or Australia change their daylight saving status, the amount by which the event time is out changes. The time offset is anything from 14 to 17 hours, depending on the time of year.
Supposedly Darkmoon Faire ended midnight last night. It actually ended 5 o’clock this afternoon. Every year the new players on Australian realms want to know when the Winterveil event begins, because it does not start on the day our calendar states. Nobelgarden, according to our calendar, starts midnight tonight. But no, it will actually begin - I’m guessing - 17 hours later.
It’s hard to know whether this backward step and refusal to fix it is a result of utter stupidity on the part of Blizzard, or utter contempt for non-Americans. I suspect it’s both.
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I still remember the days when it was normal. And I 100% agree, nothing like on Christmas morning going to the tree to get… nothing.
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Yeah I don’t understand why its so hard to display events in local time on the in-game calendar. The explanation given by Blizzard as quoted by Kyzera in Nov 2018 is stupid. If I make an event in Google Calendar and share it with someone in the U.S. and they add it to their calendar, it expresses it in their local time so that they can join at the correct time. How hard is it to make the in-game calendar do that?
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I just got buggered by this with a Timewalking event ending 4 hours earlier than I expected it to, according to the calendar, it’s not supposed to end for another 4.5 hours but I knew that was wrong; anyone know of an addon that can display times in game correctly?
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Unfortunately not, mate.
This is also relevant because it’s not only just frustrating in its own right, but it breaks addons that track world events such as CandyBuckets. As far as those addons are concerned, the world event is over because it’s listed as ending at say 10AM on a given day, but it actually ends at 3AM on the following day. All because Blizzard can’t add a simple offset to display the calendar times correctly for OCE. Ridiculous.
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+1 Vote Agreed.
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+1. Please let us set the Timezone of our in game a calendar
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We are linked to NA , it is not practical to unlink us, we do not have teh player numbers to go standalone . Even though our servers are physically situated in Aus we are part of NA , same with South American servers .
Yeah but it should still be possible to let the client take the date/time data from our PC rather than take it from the server.
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I know this an old post but yeah its annoying, noblegarden says starting monday 10am, its now the following day for hecks sake on my calendar its now tuesday and the event still aint started yet. If too lazy use chatgpt to do the coding for you and just overview/test it.
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It’s so sad the Oceanic community gets completely ignored by Blizzard. We’re plagued by so many issues.
And again, and for Noblegarden. What are the actual hours difference? Someone says it starts the next day, so 24 hours? More/Less?
EDIT: ChatGPT seems to estimate 8am tomorrow.
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so six years later and its still “working as intended”?
It should just go off server time… how hard blizz come on.