Post by Thann Solaar on Oct 28, 2016 20:14:38 GMT
[NOTE: EDT = Eastern Daylight savings Time, EST = Eastern Standard Time]
Intro
Depending on where you live in the world, at some point between now and two weeks from now your clock changes back to Standard time from the current Daylight Savings time:
Great story bro. Who cares?!?
Unfortunately, the game's clocks will NOT change so all payouts and resets remain at the same time relative to Greenwich Mean Time. This means that our Tank Raid toon reset time, 8am UTC (4am EDT) remains at 8am UTC so it will be at 3am EST when the clocks change in North America. Similarly (and more significantly for many of us), our Arena payouts will also arrive one hour earlier (so my current 6pm EDT payout will switch to 5pm EST).
So what about Rancor raid (and FFA) times?
Glad you asked, because this will bring some changes to our current arrangement. Specifically:
Why are we switching to 5pm EST? Because a large number of us have an Arena payout time of 10pm UTC, and keeping our raids at 4pm EST would be pretty inconvenient (we'd have to choose between raiding and doing Arena battles in time for payout).
When will this raid time switch take place?
Man, you're full of great questions today aren't you... Well, the answer is on November 6, 2016 (i.e. when North America switches to Standard Time).
But... but... I'm in Europe and our clocks switch before that. What time does my goddamn raid start?!?
Ok, ok, jeez. Here's a comprehensive table of all projected raid times between now and the time things settle down for everyone:
After that, the times indicated in the last two rows repeat until we switch times again in March next year.
Ow! You made my brain hurt!
Join the club, buddy
Intro
Depending on where you live in the world, at some point between now and two weeks from now your clock changes back to Standard time from the current Daylight Savings time:
- Europe switches to Standard Time on Oct 30, 2016
- North America switches on Nov 6, 2016
Great story bro. Who cares?!?
Unfortunately, the game's clocks will NOT change so all payouts and resets remain at the same time relative to Greenwich Mean Time. This means that our Tank Raid toon reset time, 8am UTC (4am EDT) remains at 8am UTC so it will be at 3am EST when the clocks change in North America. Similarly (and more significantly for many of us), our Arena payouts will also arrive one hour earlier (so my current 6pm EDT payout will switch to 5pm EST).
So what about Rancor raid (and FFA) times?
Glad you asked, because this will bring some changes to our current arrangement. Specifically:
- Our 11am EDT time slot simply becomes 11am EST -- i.e. no change
- Our 4pm EDT time slot changes to 5pm EST -- i.e. one hour later
Why are we switching to 5pm EST? Because a large number of us have an Arena payout time of 10pm UTC, and keeping our raids at 4pm EST would be pretty inconvenient (we'd have to choose between raiding and doing Arena battles in time for payout).
When will this raid time switch take place?
Man, you're full of great questions today aren't you... Well, the answer is on November 6, 2016 (i.e. when North America switches to Standard Time).
But... but... I'm in Europe and our clocks switch before that. What time does my goddamn raid start?!?
Ok, ok, jeez. Here's a comprehensive table of all projected raid times between now and the time things settle down for everyone:
| RAID START DATE | UTC/London | NA East Coast | NA West Coast | Spain (Hi, JK!) |
| Sun Oct 30 | 8pm | 4pm | 1pm | 9pm |
| Tue Nov 1 | 3pm | 11am | 8am | 4pm |
| Thu Nov 3 | 8pm | 4pm | 1pm | 9pm |
| Sun Nov 6 | 4pm | 11am | 8am | 5pm |
| Tue Nov 8 | 10pm | 5pm | 2pm | 11pm |
After that, the times indicated in the last two rows repeat until we switch times again in March next year.
Ow! You made my brain hurt!
Join the club, buddy
