Countdown Discussion

[HardwareHeretic404]

At exactly 12:00 AM China Standard Time (That's GMT+8, or 4:00 PM Greenwich Mean Time), the countdown on http://206.16.223.65/ ran to 0. I recorded the event with screen capture software and my camera. YouTube video will be up soon (personally I expected something to happen with a bang... but oh well)

Edit: Something has changed yet again. I opened http://206.16.223.65/ up in another tab just to make sure I wasn't dreaming, and the countdown ran down from 001 115 001 to 000 000 000 super fast. But now the timer has refreshed to another setting - 032 106 010 - around another month of waiting! What's worse is, the timer is going extremely slowly - it changes maybe once or twice every minute. Is something big going to happen in the next month (or few months, judging from the slow pace), or is AdjutantReflex/Bungie/Iris/Whatever is in control of the countdown playing with us? I feel excited, relieved, yet slightly disappointed at the same time.


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-Coweh

[Systema Eterna]

Did anything happen?

[the new one]

ya, same here in sg, but nth's happening.. yet.

now clock just kinda.. pause there.

EDIT: oh ya, mine stopped at a few secs before 12, that is compared to my computer clock.

[mike g]

its going quite fast but its still got about a day and abit on mine
is you computer set to the right time?

[HardwareHeretic404]

@System Eterna:
Unfortunately, nothing happened. I left CamStudio running while I took a bath and came back to find the countdown nearing zero, so I took out my camera and recorded just in case CamStudio failed. I expected something like a video clip or a message to appear, but the timer just went to 0 and stayed there. Another tab to http://206.16.223.65/ showed the clock speeding extremely fast from a previous "checkpoint" to zero, then reverting to the current state and just staying there. The message didn't even change.

@the new one:
sg as in Singapore or somewhere else? I admit this is kind of disappointing. Maybe the frozen clock points to some other date or number. Maybe we should convert it from base 7 to decimal. I'm sure SOMETHING happened SOMEWHERE, though, and it's up to us to find it.

Edit: @mike g:
I'm in Shanghai, although the countdown should show the same for everyone. Maybe it's configured especially for America. We'll have to wait and see until the time runs out at your end.

HH404

[the new one]

wait, you're telling me it's still moving?

and i thought flash just.. paused.. due to cache or sth.

yes, as in singapore.

[sharpsniper99]

perhaps theyre just waiting for everyone ellse to catch up, i mean the timer is probably only accurate for peaple in america - something will happen im sure

on a sidenote i remember someone making a joke "imagine how much it would suck if the timer ended and another longer timer came up" - i hope thats not whats happening

[Systema Eterna]

The reason it paused it because it will not resume until it's within 32 Minutes of June 20th Midnight.

[urk]

It's a "Transmission Log." The counter's expiration may not activate anything at all. It's simply a display. What it is counting toward could occur anywhere.

[the new one]

oh ya, now the timer drops whenever i hit refresh.. :/