Represent Gold Rush hours in PST or PT instead of PDT

  • In-game, Gold Rush hours are represented as PDT, a daylight-savings-time zone that is not being used anywhere in the world this time of year. Can the text description of Gold Rush be updated to indicate the time in a timezone that's being used this time of year?

    For example, googling for 18:00 PDT will actually show 18:00 PST, or 9pm eastern. (using my timezone as an example) If this is correct (PST) then the in-game description can be updated to replace the D with an S.

    However, if you properly convert PDT into eastern, you get 8pm eastern. This is unnecessarily ambiguous, since the reader will either interpret PDT to the letter or assume you mean PST.

    To be clear for anyone reading, this is not requesting a change to the time, only a fix to the in-game text to avoid ambiguity and accurately represent the time, whatever that may be.

    EDIT: I forgot to include a copy-paste of what Google shows people in Eastern time. If you type "18:00 pdt" into Google, the response looks like this:

    6:00 PM Saturday, Pacific Time (PT) is
    9:00 PM Saturday, in Cambridge, MA

    Unfortunately, what a SoT player wants to see is:

    5:00 PM Pacific Time (PT) is
    8:00 PM in Cambridge, MA

    I believe Google is making the pragmatic decision that anyone searching PDT actually meant PT (PST) since timezones are notoriously confusing for the lay-person. Unfortunately, if a SoT player uses this information, they will be an hour late and miss Gold Rush, assuming that the SoT wiki is accurate, and Gold Rush starts at 1am UTC.

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  • I think now that in game notification banners are being implemented they should just have a tiny notification that it's active

    a lot of people don't even know it exists or what time it happens in general as I've told countless people about it playing open crew.

    Gold rush: active
    Gold and Glory: active

    would be helpful and bring more people into the grind

  • Wish it was in local time.

  • I legit have alarms on my phone for gold rush, I didnt know it was affected by daylight saving time, I figured it was just broken as of recently since I use to always be on point with the alarms thank you for pointing out the discrepancy, I'll roll my alarms back an hour.

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