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Game of thrones premiere date question

Posted: 27 Mar 2012, 08:44
by iesus
The chan said that the premiere is on April 1st 21:00
but america has 4 time zones :roll:
does someone knows to tell me in CET what is the time the series starts? i have no idea when to search for it, with the Lost it was up 30-40 mins after the end of each episode, i have to plan for GoT now ;D
Thanks in Advance :notworthy:

Posted: 27 Mar 2012, 09:37
by rian
Are there new episodes? Tommorow we have part 6 of 10 on the telly in Sweden. From2011.

Posted: 27 Mar 2012, 12:00
by iesus
The premiere of season 2 is in Sunday 1st April 21:00 unknown timezone somewhere in US. ;D

Posted: 27 Mar 2012, 12:23
by rian
iesus wrote:The premiere of season 2 is in Sunday 1st April 21:00 unknown timezone somewhere in US. ;D
Cool, I'm looking forward to it. I really like it!

Posted: 27 Mar 2012, 12:56
by markfiend
I would guess the timezone to be Eastern (New York / Washington DC etc.)

Posted: 27 Mar 2012, 13:06
by Bartek
why not west (L.A., S.F.)?

Posted: 27 Mar 2012, 14:17
by markfiend
I don't know why. :lol:

The fount of all knowledge says:
The Eastern Time Zone is commonly used by the national media and other organizations as somewhat of a de facto official time for all of the United States. National media organizations will often report when news events happened or are scheduled to happen in Eastern Time, even if they occurred in another time zone. TV schedules, especially those that list events that are broadcast live across the country, are also almost always posted in Eastern Time.

Posted: 28 Mar 2012, 07:25
by iesus
Thank you very much for the useful info :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy:
Now i have to make a plan for Monday mornings for 10 weeks ;D

Posted: 28 Mar 2012, 10:26
by nodubmanshouts
Actually the answer is a little more convoluted... but you'll get the same answer as above.

Almost always, a time will be given with a timezone, and often several. Eg. 9am ET / 6am PT... read as "9am Eastern, 6am Pacific".

National news outlets will often say just "9am", but the, ehem, better ones will correct themselves... "president due to address the nation at 9am.... that's 9am Eastern". Of course, that doesn't really apply to local programming.

As for HBO, who broadcast GOT, why do they specify no time zone? The answer is, they actually broadcast on two channels, "HBO East" and "HBO West". HBOE will broadcast GOT at 9pm ET, HBOW will broadcast at 9pm PT. So in your time zone, it will be 9pm, regardless.

Many people actually get both HBO stations, so its always possible for those us on the west coast to jump the gun and watch the HBOE channel. HBO is a bit anomally in that regard. Other channels will normally time delay to local stations. So for example, ABC may show "Good Morning America" live in NY, but time delayed in LA by 3 hours.

The oddity in all of this is Central Time. Often Central Time programming is offset by one hour, or basicaly just runs at the same time as ET programming... so you'll get programs showing at "9ET/8CT"

Then there's also Hawaii and a few other places which pretty much do their own thing...

Bottom line is, GOT will first show at 9ET, so that's what you probably want.

Posted: 28 Mar 2012, 12:12
by markfiend
Interesting. What about Mountain Time? ;)

Posted: 28 Mar 2012, 14:53
by nodubmanshouts
You know, I'm not sure. In 15 years in the US, I don't ever remember seeing time specified as Mountain Time..

Posted: 28 Mar 2012, 15:51
by markfiend

Posted: 28 Mar 2012, 21:10
by Ahráyeph
Hammer time, however...

Posted: 29 Mar 2012, 09:39
by markfiend
:notworthy:

Posted: 01 Apr 2012, 21:40
by paint it black
Big and swooning write up in the Sunday Independent says that it starts in the UK on Sky Atlantic tomorrow night

never seen it myself, but the description 'a soft porn version of the Lord of the Rings ' has me thinking

Posted: 01 Apr 2012, 22:29
by iesus
That kind of ppl that don't like both LotR and GoT propably never read books and propably don't know reading and writing at all and all using secretaries that write down their s**t critics in papers only purposed to used when the appropriate soft paper in toilet runs out ;D
i hope i was kind enough for those bastwerds :twisted:

Posted: 01 Apr 2012, 23:15
by paint it black
iesus wrote:That kind of ppl that don't like both LotR and GoT propably never read books and propably don't know reading and writing at all and all using secretaries that write down their s**t critics in papers only purposed to used when the appropriate soft paper in toilet runs out ;D
i hope i was kind enough for those bastwerds :twisted:
swooning was my choice of word, sorry to confuse. Loosely it means loving beyond a point of reason, to be in rapture etc :wink: