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Hey, this is Magusto still waiting to get into DF just as many other are.

"Also, we'll offer more client sales starting on Monday 4PM GMT for a limited number of copies and possibly every day next week as we further upgrade server capacity at the end of this week."

That quote is from Tasos, which means this monday, March 30th it will be on sale at 4pm GMT.

Remeber that GMT ISN'T mountain time, it is acutally Greenwich Mean Time which is 5 hours ahead of Central Standard Time for the U.S.

Ok now that we have that down, it seems the website likes to run at GMT +1 time, which means that you will be able to buy the game on monday at approximately 10am-11am central time.

Remeber to be fast on the draw as many others will want the same thing. Another tip on how to beat everyone to the punch is located in this thread made by bearrok:

KGB http://oracle.the-kgb.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=40341#Post40341

Good Luck to everyone and hope to see ya'll in game!(If i make it myself)

Thank you for the info.

they changed that time to 6pm GMT which would be monday at approximately 12pm-1pm central time. in a later post by Tasos.

One thing to remember is GMT doesn't observe daylight saving time (while british time does), so for central its a -7 hour conversion not -6. The store should open at 11am central. 9am pacific (for me).

Some help with the conversion:
Time zone converter
Time zone map in real time

6pm GMT = 10am Pacific

Right?

Sorry I converted in the wrong direction for daylight saving time.

I just punched in 18:00 GMT to the time zone converter and then selected 'convert to US pacific' and got...

18:00:00 Monday March 30, 2009 in GMT converts to
11:00:00 Monday March 30, 2009 in US/Pacific

So it's 11am, not 9 or 10. I had a funny suspicion 9am was wrong because if standard conversion is 10am, then a spring forward in time would not produce 9am...duh...it should produce 11am, which is indeed correct.

I'm still going to check at 10am as well. They might not mean GMT and instead mean british daylight saving time, which will make our time the 10am time for pacific. Best to be safe!

Nether,

6PM - 8 Hours is 10AM.

Well if it is 10am, they should not say they're using GMT then because we're currently -7 in pacific from GMT. If we're in DST, we're -7 else -8.

I do this time conversion crap in my database all the time. It sucks lol. We have one database that stores all time in UTC (universal time code - which is almost exactly like GMT). When we need something converted to central time or pacific etc, we have to check to see if our timestamps overlap daylight saving time here in the US (since neither UTC or GMT observe DST).

Anyway I'm still checking at 10 am, because these guys could be using british summer time and not the stated GMT.

For the curious ones:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMT

Specifically: "In the UK, GMT is the official time only during winter; during summer British Summer Time is used."

And from British Summer Time:

"British Summer Time or BST is the civil time during the summer months in the United Kingdom during which the clocks are advanced from Greenwich mean time by one hour. It was first established by the Summer Time Act of 1916, was amended by subsequent acts and is now defined by the Summer Time Order of 2002 which laid down that it would be

...the period beginning at one o'clock, Greenwich mean time, in the morning of the last Sunday in March and ending at one o'clock, Greenwich mean time, in the morning of the last Sunday in October."

Which means as of last night, the UK is now on BST, one hour ahead of GMT.

Ok genius idea by a guy on the forums. If you aren't sure about GMT, just set your Darkfall forums setting (Settings & Options -> Edit Options) to GMT and TURN OFF DST adjustments. Then check the clock at the bottom of the DF forum page. It will read GMT.

They're doing it on BST. ITS OPEN GO GO!

*edit* I GOT IN! GO GO NOW KGB!