I really love the ability to schedule raid start times and join periods. However, with everything being based on an offset from GMT, daylight saving adjustments become a problem. In my guild we start our raids every morning at 4am eastern time zone with a 17hour join period so that the raid opens for attacks at 9pm. In order to do that I have to set it up the night before. When daylight saving adjustments happen, it causes discrepancies. The fact that all time zones don't do daylight savings on the same date around the world makes it even worse. We we just messed up by the fact that GMT must have just had their daylight saving adjustment which caused my guild's raid to open for damage an hour early, which then opened the door for some eager guild members to think it was ok to start attacking.Once the rest of the guild realizes what has happened (I've tried to notify everyone through our discord server), there are likely going to be some irritated individuals.We can't have a system that is meant to be reliable that is based on a moveable target.

I just looked it up and I have no idea what caused my raid to start an hour early. GMT has not changed and my settings are as described (4am launch with a 17hour join period = 9pm open for attacks) but yet at 8pm it opened.

Pick a static time and go with it, set it on auto launch, and you are good, no need to fiddle each time.

"JMac_Mol_Eliza;d-202398" wrote:We we just messed up by the fact that GMT must have just had their daylight saving adjustment GMT doesn't have a daylight savings adjustment.

Here’s the screenshot of the raid settings. It should NOT have opened up for attacks at 8pm.

This whole thing is confusing and way too involved. I’ve been doing these settings for my guild ever since the feature was introduced and I’ve never had a problem like this and I’ve been doing the same thing EVERY SINGLE DAY. Why all of a sudden is it being difficult.

Raid scheduling based on GMT screwup

11 Replies

GhostTrucking
6 years ago
Pick a static time and go with it, set it on auto launch, and you are good, no need to fiddle each time.
LiathSW
6 years ago
"JMac_Mol_Eliza;d-202398" wrote:
We we just messed up by the fact that GMT must have just had their daylight saving adjustment

GMT doesn't have a daylight savings adjustment.
JMac0414
6 years ago
I just looked it up and I have no idea what caused my raid to start an hour early. GMT has not changed and my settings are as described (4am launch with a 17hour join period = 9pm open for attacks) but yet at 8pm it opened.
JMac0414
6 years ago

Here’s the screenshot of the raid settings. It should NOT have opened up for attacks at 8pm.
JMac0414
6 years ago
This whole thing is confusing and way too involved. I’ve been doing these settings for my guild ever since the feature was introduced and I’ve never had a problem like this and I’ve been doing the same thing EVERY SINGLE DAY. Why all of a sudden is it being difficult.
JMac0414
6 years ago
Here’s the settings as they ALWAYS look each day. I just click the “auto launch” box and let it go.
JMac0414
6 years ago
JMac0414
6 years ago
The display for the HAAT settings is mixed up: 4am UTC instead of 4am Local
JMac0414
6 years ago
"GhostTruckin;c-1845358" wrote:
Pick a static time and go with it, set it on auto launch, and you are good, no need to fiddle each time.

That's exactly what I have been doing ever since the feature came out. All our raids are open at 9pm with a 17hour join period.

I'm feeling like I'm over this. I'm not happy that apparently the feature can't be counted on to work perfectly every single time but now I know to double check it when I click Auto Launch and then recheck the time the next morning.
GhostTrucking
6 years ago
There’s no reason to click it every time. Set it to auto launch at the time you want and leave it. Pretty sure most folks , atleast the ones I have spoken to, simply set the raid to auto launch as soon es enough tickets, with whatever join period they desire, and then never touch it again.

For our crews, the raids have been on auto since the feature came out, and they always launch and run as we want, without ever touching the setting. Just a thought ,