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.
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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.
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.
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 ,