Guild Wars 2

The midnight coming up is 9/25/12 12:00:00am. I beg, for the sake of passing around correct information, please reference the correct day if you are using midnight as your go to time. Midnight = next day. For the confused, reference New Years Eve if you don’t understand. Everyone celebrates at midnight because it is the NEXT DAY.

If you must use your Monday dates, then use 11:59:59pm as your timeline, which would be more accurate. 09/24/12 – 11:59:59pm PST, there will be a patch.

10/01/12 12:00:00am is one second before 09/30/12 11:59:59pm, so that would be Sunday going into Monday. If you continue the pattern of 10/01 midnight, and push the patch out Monday into Tuesday, then you do not know how to read a calendar or tell time.

I agree that ANet could make things less ambiguous by using 23:59 = 11:59 PM or 00:01 = 12:01. Using “midnight” is always going to confuse someone.

One could also argue that 1999→2000 wasn’t the start of the new millennium, since technically that would be 2000→2001 as there was no “year 0.” But the fact is people aren’t computers and they believe what they believe. Arguing the “facts” of grammar/dictionary definitions is largely a losing battle (unless you are a copy editor); it’s usually best to phrase things to avoid the ambiguity.

Regardless, this amounts to a suggestion, rather than a bug — you’re more likely to get action on it if you place the idea in the suggestions section.

Hello

The post you have made is a rant, and not bug related. Please refrain from posting in the wrong forums and making rant threads.
Therefore, this post is closed.

Thanks