24-hour sale information [Time Zones]

[MilesDB]

Started this thread just to summarize the available information so that people won't miss the announced XenForo sale.

We have:

Barring unforseen circumstances, XenForo will go on sale next Tuesday, October 5th 2010, at some point during UK business hours.

UK business hours: 8am - 4pm Local Time

UK Time is Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Summer (Daylight-Saving)Time is observed in UK Time, where the time is shifted forward by 1 hour; 1 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT+1).

UK business hours in reference to other time zones:

USA:

Eastern Standard Time (EST): 3am - 11am
Central Standard Time (CST): 2am - 10am
Mountain Standard Time (MST): 1am - 9am
Pacific Standard Time (PST): 12.00am[midnight] - 8am


Australia:

Sydney/Melbourne/Brisbane/Canberra Time (EST): 5pm [Oct 5] - 1am[Oct 6]
Adelaide/Darwin Time (CTS): 4.30pm[Oct5] - 12.30am[Oct6]
Perth Time (WST): 3pm-11pm


New Zealand:

Auckland/Wellington Time (NZDT): 8pm[Oct 5] - 4am[Oct 6]


Russia:

Moscow Time (MSD): 11am - 7pm
Novosibirsk Time (NOVST): 2pm - 10pm
Vladivostok Time (VLAST): 6pm - 2am[Oct 6]


Turkey:

Istanbul/Ankara/Izmir Time (EEST): 10am - 6pm


Japan:

Tokyo/Yokohama/Osaka/Kyoto Time (JST): 4pm -12.00am[midnight, Oct 6]


China:

Beijing/Shanghai/Harbin/Urümqi Time (CST): 3pm - 11pm


India:

New Delhi/Mumbai/Hyderãbãd/Chennai(IST): 12.30pm - 8.30pm


XenForo sale will start at some point during the above time frame and last for 24 hours!

 

[Carlos]

Just call it quits and move on.

Yessir!

 

[Elevory]

Elevory and Carlos, please quit with the sniping at each other.

Just call it quits and move on.

BUT WHAT ABOUT MY PRIDE.

 

[Carlos]

I just "Reported" xenForo's latest post in the announcement forum with reason "Teasing us!" - Mod that sob!

I snorted out hard. Laughed so hard. Damn. +1 like.

 

[steven s]

Dammit. My phone at work keeps ringing!

 

[Marv]

I have college tommorrow morning, so by the time I get home, it might be closed. I'm not good with UK business hours, or even what time they would close over there, so I have to get in EARLY before I have to say "Oh $#!^" and regret it.

Go to bed and order your license while having your first cup of coffee in the morning. Don´t understand your problem..

 

[Paul B]

I just "Reported" xenForo's latest post in the announcement forum with reason "Teasing us!" - Mod that sob!

You weren't the first

 

[The Sandman]

Anyone know if that vote to lock thread suggestion ever got implemented?

I like that one too.

 

[Robert F Schmitz]

Dammit. My phone at work keeps ringing!

See there is the problem. You are still at work. (As he continues to work on these shop drawings)

 

[Carlos]

Go to bed and order your license while having your first cup of coffee in the morning. Don´t understand your problem..

Its not a problem per se. At least not right now, but I WAS worried that I would miss it... BECAUSE of the time difference between PST and European time.

 

[grant sarver]

First rule of new release marketing: Build anticipation
Second rule: Build suspense
Third rule: Release at the peak of both!
Whether by accident or design, it's going near perfect.

 

[Forsaken]

You´re not alone with your opinion. It´s past 10 PM and I have to geet up around 4 in the morning. Estimating on how much time I will spent on the XF install and assuming that I can catch an hour of sleep almost makes me think, that 3 guys I´m aware off haven´t slept the last 36 hours... May be a few should think twice before posting - me too sometimes.

I've had two hours in 3 days due to insomnia and just dealing with a few things before the release.

Those two hours were because my girlfriend started making threats .

 

[Carlos]

I've had two hours in 3 days due to insomnia and just dealing with a few things before the release.

I guess we think a like!

I had to work out a few kinks before getting into this XenForo frenzy.

 

[steven s]

First rule of new release marketing: Build anticipation
Second rule: Build suspense
Third rule: Release at the peak of both!
Whether by accident or design, it's going near perfect.

Sounds like my first g/f.

 

[Ruven]

If you say you are going to do something, then do it.
If that fails then its your responsibility to keep people informed of when you plan to do it.
Being vague is not customer service.
A lot of people left vB because of such things.
While im not comparing XF to IB, why even let things start off on the wrong foot like this?

People understand that "**** happens", but you cant just say "**** happens, brb"... you need to give your customers a little more than that.

This isnt negativity towards XenForo, Mike/Kier/Ashley et all, so the increasing tone of belittling fellow customers is not called for.
Most of these complaints are fair. And simply voicing them does not mean that people are in any way against XenForo or the developers.

A customer has many reasons as to why he is waiting here for the release.
For me personally... i woke up a few hours early in order to buy my license, FTP the files up to my site, set up a test site, and have my tech admin and a few super mods start to get familiar with the admin panel and style creating functions. Then i planned to grab some breakfast and drive 200 miles on an errand i have to make.
Its nearly 1:30 in the afternoon and i have yet to go eat or leave town, but if its not here in the next 15 minutes i will have to wait till i get back tomorrow as its getting late.
No big deal of course, if i lose 40 bucks its not the end of the world, but i had planned this, and it would be nice to be told an approximate time frame, i might have just left a long time ago and grabbed some breakfast... well now more like lunch going on dinner

 

[Elevory]

Sounds like my first g/f.

Oh, zing.

Wait, why weren't you the one doing the releasing?

 

[Elevory]

Stuff about XF's naughty behavior

Your stress as a paying customer is somewhat insignificant. Try getting sued.

Also, your money won't get lost in all of this, you'll just have to wait a little longer for your product. It's not even worth complaining about.

 

[Robert F Schmitz]

Oh, zing.

Wait, why weren't you the one doing the releasing?

She facilitated it.

 

[DaveL]

Spot on Ruven. Its all about the customer service, and to post an announcement saying "Coming Soon", to me is a bit of a pi$$ take. If its going to be at least a few hours, or tomorrow morning just let us know.

 

[Paul B]

Coming soon means exactly that.

Bearing in mind what has taken place in the last 24 hours, the least you could do is cut the guys some slack.

They've been working around the clock since last night with little or no sleep.

 

[Forsaken]

Spot on Ruven. Its all about the customer service, and to post an announcement saying "Coming Soon", to me is a bit of a pi$$ take. If its going to be at least a few hours, or tomorrow morning just let us know.

And if they need to extend the time in which they release again?

People get just as pissed off with that. Quite honestly, nothing they do right now will make anyone who is already complaining happy except the release.