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Post by joekiddlouischama on Feb 20, 2017 22:06:49 GMT
They shut down by around 8:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, February 19, 2017 ... so much for shutting down on "February 20." I was hoping that they would go by Pacific Standard Time, as I was trying to save and archive some material, and they never even waited for February 20 on the East Coast, instead closing down at least four hours early. What? I was involved in a running thread with spiderwort on the Classic Film Board about when the boards would close. I figured they would use U.S. pacific time, the time stamp on all our threads, but no-one knew for sure. I jokingly posted a minute after midnight Australian eastern daylight saving time, proclaiming "we're still here, so they're not using Australian time." I got some sleep and resumed posting seven hours later. The next major timezone up for grabs was Greenwich Mean Time, just four hours away. At a minute past midnight GMT, I posted "still here, so they're not using GMT. Next stop U.S. eastern standard time." Fourteen minutes later, the message boards were wiped out. They had used GMT as their time reference. Had they used U.S. pacific time, the boards would have been up for another eight hours. Thanks for the details and clarification. One would have hoped that IMDb could have been clear itself, especially since the majority of its message board members are almost certainly in the US. So much for "customer service" ... shows the type of operation that they were running there.
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