So the gates open tonight at 12 EST?

Or how does this work for the headstart thing?

Actually it's 3:01 AM EST

12:01 PST

if you have a preorder
if it is retail than you wait one more day

Actually its PDT not PST

no 12 pst uh this will sort of help you its minus one day if you preordered though. So less then 7 hours to go!

http://www.msu.edu/~nordhou1/gw/releasecd.html

What does the D stand for lol?

It's PST.



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i live here and i think it is daylight savings time as we moved the clocks up a few weeks ago

edit

just double checked and it is indeed PDT

It's PDT and there really isn't any difference between PST and PDT. PDT = Summr PST = Winter

Google'd it. I have too much free time.

PDT - Pacific Daylight Time
Time zone offset: UTC - 7 hours
PDT is 7 hours behind of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)

Note that PDT is a daylight saving time/summer time zone. It is generally only used during the summer in the places listed below, during the winter PST is used instead
Time zone abbreviations: PDT, HAP
Full name is Pacific Daylight Time
HAP - Heure Avancée du Pacifique (French)
Email time zone indicator: -0700

An email sent from someone in the PDT time zone will have the time zone listed as "-0700" in the headers of the email. (However, "-0700" does not have to be in PDT, as other time zones could have the same UTC offset).
For actual dates DST might be observed, look at the examples below
Where and when is PDT observed?
PDT is used in the summer in these US states (PST during winter)

* California
* Idaho - western counties
Benewah, Bonner, Boundary, Clearwater, Kootenai, Latah, Lewis, Nez Perce, Shoshone and north part of Idaho
* Nevada
* Oregon - except most of Malheur county
* Washington

PDT is used during summer in these Canadian provinces (PST during winter)

* British Columbia - except for these eastern communities
Cranbrook, Golden, Invermere
* Yukon

PDT is used during summer in these Mexican states (PST during winter)

* Baja California Sur

Time zone maps are under development and will be available later
Example locations in PDT

* Vancouver - during summer
* Tijuana - during summer

Other time zones in North America
Go directly through the links below, or see the North America time zone list

* NST - Newfoundland Standard Time
* NDT - Newfoundland Daylight Time
* AST - Atlantic Standard Time
* ADT - Atlantic Daylight Time
* EST - Eastern Standard Time
* EDT - Eastern Daylight Time
* CST - Central Standard Time
* CDT - Central Daylight Time
* MST - Mountain Standard Time
* MDT - Mountain Daylight Time
* PST - Pacific Standard Time
* AKST - Alaska Standard Time
* AKDT - Alaska Daylight Time
* HAST - Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time
* HADT - Hawaii-Aleutian Daylight Time

There is no such thing as PDT. It's always PST.

Edit: I stand corrected. I clicked the wrong link in my search.

yes you do ;-=)

Ya I did a search and clicked the wrong thing which gave the wrong answer. It's funny because before this point I have never seen anyone call it PDT or EDT. I just say EST or PST all year long.

Same thing, just more stuff to confuse us.

So 3 AM est. Sweet. See you all ingame.

Actually the only reason I pointed out it is PDT is because that is what it says on official FAQ about pre-release.
I knew about PDT but I had til that point never seen anyone actually use it.
I guess PDT is correct, but

We should all live on Earth Standard Time.

Would solve alot of headaches.

LOl too funny, I like th elink to the countdown timer. Guess I will try it as soon as I get up, anyone know how they got 48hours between 12am on the 27 and 12 am on the 28?

lol

ok, so whats time will it be Central Standard Time (midwest) if its 12am PDT?

2am CST. 1am MST if anyone asks.

I might just be wrong on this, but I think daylight savings are more a recent thing (last 100 years is recent) and not really a tradition.

I could be that I come from a country that are more than 250 years old too and we have a different view of what traditions are

I've never heard of PDT and EDT ever ever.. never heard of it and I live in EST area. I thought it was a typo when I noticed it on the GuildWars site when listing the times/dates of how things will work the next few days.


PST and EST is what I've always used and will always use. This might be a new official way to give a distinction between the two time shifts because not every place in the word shifts time like North America.

[QUOTE=Pipahh]
PST and EST is what I've always used and will always use.QUOTE]

Stubborn americans... Its because of people like you, that inches and feet are still around too

If you are at all interested check this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving

Has some interesting info on it. DST is mostly used to save energy it seems (something I did not know).

If Arenanet would just read this thread I'm sure they would open the servers early - a debate about what time it is pretty much takes the cake IMO

Haha!

Put that way it is a lot more humorous.

6 hours away. bring out the espresso.

Thank you I am always interested in learning something new.

I remembered it was early 1900. And I knew it started in europe.

Actually it older, the idea came from Bejamin Franklin as a way to save candles!!! Since we don't use candles anymore, I say it's time to stop changing the d### clocks and leave it the same all year!!!! Who's with me?

Winter(Standard)/Summer(Daylight)

Pacific = PST/PDT = 12am
Mountain = MST/MDT = 1am
Central = CST/CDT = 2am
Atlantic = ???/??? = 3am

Hope that helps lol

Exactly 12:01 am PST (Pacific Time) for those who have preorders.

For the rest, it will be 24 hours later.

I live a few hours from you and I have always used the term EDT during daylight savings....

actually its not 12 am on the 28 its 11:59 pm on the 28 or if you like this more 12 am on the 29

Offtopic posts removed.

Did you click on the link Zia provided?

I have a feeling (call it old fart intuition) that there may be plesant surprises for the loyal participants when the gates open. I only say this because of how each beta session has ended, and that the development team has the ability to make us smile at will.

Okay this should clear the time mess up...

Daylight Savings Time is for the zones of the U.S. that change their clocks ahead one hour during the spring time and changes it back an hour in the fall. If you change your clock during those two times of the year then you fall under Daylight Savings Time (DST) for your time zone, regardless of whether you were aware of it or not. So it works as such...

Spring/Summer
PST = 11pm
PDT = 12am ----> ArenaNet's timezone.
MST = 12am
MDT = 1am
CST = 1am
CDT = 2am
EST = 2am -----> Me. Indianapolis, IN (we never change our clocks.)
EDT = 3am

Fall/Winter
PST = PDT = 11pm
MST = MDT = 12am
CST = CDT = 1am
EST = EDT = 2am

So as you can see, it's very imperative that we use the different time zone designations because some places such as Indianapolis never changes their clocks and if we didn't have distinct zones such as standard and daylight we would switch between two time zones every year. Eastern in the Fall/Winter and Central in the Spring/Summer.

Hope this helps to clear the time zone debacle.

is this the official countdown post now?

2 hours!

Even though I have to get up early, I'm going to get some sleep now so I can get up at 1AM (My time) to play the game. I'll see you guys there for sure. 2 hours!