Yesterday, at about 00:45, I looked to see how long I had to wait for openSUSE 13.2 to be released, and the picture said "5 hours left". I then looked at the time zone chart on Wikipedia and realized that the time they use to release openSUSE versions is UTC-12 (I live in UTC-7, so -7-5 =-12). While I want to think that they use the UTC-12 time zone for some sort of fairness, at the same time I think it'd be better if they'd specify the time zone with the date, so some people aren't left wondering why it's not out yet.
I remember when I was waiting for one of the releases, and at some point I gave up trying to stay up for it, only to find that it still wasn't available for download when I woke the next morning. I think that was also the same release when I thought it'd be out by 16:00 UTC-7 (0:00 UTC+1) since that's Germany's time zone, but that wasn't the case, as I was checking their FTP server almost incessantly.
Well, now that I know it's [release date] UTC-12, I'll just wait until the day after to download it.
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