Today is December 21, 2012.

According to the Mayan Calender, the World ends today.

Time can be a funny thing, especially when it’s misread.

Which leads me to mentioning the recent Patch 5.1 and a change that was made.  It was a quality of life change for players, in that Blizzard decided to set their clocks properly and have everything running on time.  No more were farm crops harvest-ready hours before daily quests reset.  Events were more region-wide, which made it easier for folks to plan their day.

Times displayed in North American Pacific Standard Time (GMT -8 hours)

Sunrise
5:30 a.m. PST

Sunset
6:30 p.m. PST

Daily quests reset
3:00 a.m. PST

Profession cooldowns and farm reset
3:00 a.m. PST

Dungeon & raid lockouts reset
Unchanged (times still shared between NA and Oceanic realms)

Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza begins
2 p.m. PST every Sunday

Battleground holidays
12:00 a.m. every Friday – 12:00 a.m. every Tuesday PST

Darkmoon Faire begins
12:00 a.m. PST first Sunday of every month

Oceanic Daily Event Times

Note that, due to the extreme time zone difference, Oceanic realms have a separate standardized time, and Oceanic realms aren’t coalesced with non-Oceanic realms for cross-realm zones. Oceanic realms are, however, still a part of the North American matchmaking pool for Scenarios, Dungeon Finder, Raid Finder, Battlegrounds, and Arenas, in order to ensure that the matchmaking system is able to draw from a healthy population of players at any given hour. Because of this, raid/dungeon lockouts will continue to reset at the same time for North American and Oceanic realms (i.e. reset times will still vary depending on your local time).

Times displayed as Australian Eastern Standard Time (GMT +10 hours)

Sunrise
5:30 a.m. EST

Sunset
6:30 p.m. EST

Daily quests reset
3:00 a.m. EST

Profession cooldowns and farm reset
3:00 a.m. EST

Dungeon & raid lockouts reset
Unchanged (times still shared between NA and Oceanic realms)

Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza begins
2 p.m. EST

Battleground holidays
12:00 a.m. every Friday – 12:00 a.m. every Tuesday EST

Darkmoon Faire begins
12:00 a.m. EST first Sunday of every month

*Day/night changeovers are not currently set to the times listed above and will be updated in a hotfix as soon as possible.