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Daylight Savings Adjustment?
GabeZRod
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Can we expect adjustments to AQ/AW timing with daylight savings being over? I feel like they’ve been adjusted in the past, though I recall it causing issue to a war season.
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The game team made the necessary adjustment to the Alliance War start time, this morning!
But the next war's Matchmaking Start time still seems wrong, tomorrow at 5pm EST (should be 6pm).
Since the current war's time seems right, I’m guessing the next war's one will correct itself once it gets there (that timer had probably already been started before their fix). Or the matchmaking start might still be an hour early, but the placement ending time (which is really all that matters (will still be correct). **unless you don’t “Enlist” in time and you end up an hour short of doing your Enlistment tomorrow.
Forgot that it is based on when a Match was actually found (say approx 1 hour into matchmaking for Ally’s at end of Gold range).
So if Placement Ending around 2pm EST, that is indeed still 1 hour early.
Maybe @Kabam Jax means that the Attack Starting time (or at least the Attack ENDING time) will be extended out by 1 hour. We’ll see in a couple hours whether that is the case or not.
While the Attack Day ending *seems* approximately correct, it's only because the Matchmaking for this war took somewhere around an extra hour later that it normally takes. And the Attack Ending is based on 20 hours after the Match was found.
(maybe because of the season rewards, or previous AQ rewards stuff ?)
If you look at NEXT WAR Matching time, it is still gonna start at 5pm US-EST tomorrow, which is still 1 hours earlier that the “Pre-DST change” that it normally is all year round (6pm US-EST).
So AW all winter has been 1 hour earlier than in years past.
Using US-Eastern timezone as example, AW *always* used to start matchmaking (the easiest point of reference there is) at 6 pm US-Eastern, no matter in summer or winter.
This past Fall that changed (and carried thru all the way until now) to be 5 pm.
What just changed now, in advance of Spring DST change this weekend, is that AW matchmaking was adjusted to be 4 pm. **But that will result in a post-DST change tomorrow of being back to 5 pm matchmaking start.
So, still never heard if it was intentional to change AW to 5 pm matchmaking always now (as of last Fall) instead of the 6 pm from all years past (US Eastern).
But looks like the 5 pm will indeed be the new norm year-round.
**note, for those countries that don’t observe DST, or have a different weekend they change it compared to North America, you will have a change in AW Starting Time because your time doesn’t change the same as ours.