Countdown to Headstart - by TimeZone

According to the countdown clock on www.guildwars2.com there are 24 days, 3 hours, 28 minutes and some odd seconds to launch of headstart...

8:31 AM ET + 3 Hours and 28 minutes = 12:00 NOON!!!! That's going to be the longest saturday morning...

What time does it kick off in your TZ? Anyone have to 'wait' until the 26th?

The countdown on the website is based on your computer's clock, so the countdown is different for everyone. I'm gonna guess that they're not going to do a rolling release by timezone and that they're gonna open the servers at noon PST, making the east coast's release 3pm.

You are correct in that it uses the pc clock - but what I didn't notice is that it's counting down to 12:00 local time.

24 days 2 hours 12 minutes from 9:48 ET = 12:00 Noon ET

Yet changing my clock to PT results in the website displaying:

24 days 5 hours 12 minutes from 6:48 ET = 12:00 Noon PT (3:00 ET)

If it truly is a 12:00 noon PT launch- then I would expect the countdown to use 12:00 noon PT - then adjust according to my local time.

Am I missing something?

** GW2 tweeted about the countdown timer confusion - no explanation yet though **

I thought head start would be Midnight Friday, not sure why I thought that...

on twitter:
Those of you looking forward to headstart, it will begin on August 25 at 00:00 PACIFIC Time. ~RB2 #GW2

for the rest of the world: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=headstart&iso=20120825T00&p1=137

Nine in the morning here in europe. Wonderful!

ha! it is Midnight! well for us west coast folks..

Im going to change my whole sleep schedule the week before so I can fall asleep around 5pm Friday so I can wake up at 2:30.. Grab my snacks, get comfortable, then play 3 days straight straying at 3am

Living in LA, that would be 1 sec after midnight :pinch: Friday night the game should be head-start go for me....guess I'm going to have to sleep some during the day so I can game for a while in the weeee hours of the morning. lol

STITCH: Dude you had me in stitches....LMAO! Yep you are a true gamer! /bow