Jose Amaral Mota
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I thought it was until 12 am... miss it then...
XenForo Sale Ended?
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Deebs
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Every smartphone on the planet can also help you. For those who are stuck and have a smartphone, create a new clock for London. That is XenForo time, problem solved.
Kevin
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... or, if you are using Windows 7, you can view other time zones easily by clicking on the date & time in your lower right corner, Click on "Change date and time settings" at the bottom of the pop-up, click on the "Additional Clocks" tab", and then add up to two additional clocks for any timezone/location you want. In the case of GMT time, select the "(UTC) Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London" option. Going forward just hover over the date & time and you can quickly see at a glance what time it is locally versus the other timezone/location.
Carlos
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Careful, Brogan said not to insult people....or you could just not be a tard and buy it sometime during the whole week it was on sale and not wait until the last possible second.
Adam Howard
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^^^^ I think this is the only possible thing which could have confused people, including Google if that is how you compare timezones.
UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) is the common default standard which is in relation to GMT. This is the closest "time" we have on a universal and global scale.
http://geography.about.com/od/timeandtimezones/a/gmtutc.htm
Personally, if you waited until the very last minute to act upon this sale...... I'd say you only have yourself to blame.
Onimua
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Not to mention the sale was announced days before it actually started, which was plenty of notice....or you could just not be a tard and buy it sometime during the whole week it was on sale and not wait until the last possible second.
It always happens though. A sale ends and people want it to be extended because they were "just about to buy it". I believe it happened before when XF initially went on sale a few years ago too.
Sheldon
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You mean there was a sale when xF opened?
WTF?
I missed that... KAM, can you extend that one? I was going to buy then.
That would be this thread, amongst others: http://xenforo.com/community/threads/presale.5354/
Biker
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Onimua
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Your ability to link to instances like this at a moment's notice hasn't suffered while you were gone it seems.
... that's terrifying.
Mike Edge
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Your ability to link to instances like this at a moment's notice hasn't suffered while you were gone it seems.
... that's terrifying.
He was keeping in shape on a demo board
Ernest L. Defoe
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The thing is GMT is a time zone. It's up to the user to figure out the difference between GMT and their timezone. Not hard to learn to work the Google on the internet machine.
Carlos
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Yes, you can find out on your own... But not everyone will. I'll check the time, and I did when xF went on sale. I was worried that xenForo wouldn't clear my e-check while the grace period for the pre-sale was closing in... I waited, and waited. I got my license, and I sighed in relief.
The thing is, when you're dealing with worldwide customers, you can't expect them to understand what timezone GMT is, or what time GMT is in your local area. So, it's better to lay out the timezones where the software is being offered. Otherwise, you risk losing that grace period sales. The whole point of discounted sales is to increase license sales in a rapid pace.
And the Daylight Savings Time change does not help matters, at all, either.
I could say the OP was lazy, but I'm a nice guy, I'm not going to treat him that way. Which everyone is doing... To be contrary, I defended the OP. Even if it is embarrassing to me.
Ernest L. Defoe
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Well they (xF) can't lay out timezones for the whole world. The software is offered worldwide not just the US. If they were a company in the US that only sold to US customers then yeah I can understand laying it out there for every time zones. Most internet companies that sell worldwide use GMT as the basis for times/timezones.
Ernest L. Defoe
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Amen brother man, preach it.
Biker
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Corwin
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Next time they should use UCT which is official time standard in the World 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time
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