JST Is Japanese Time Correct?

Yea i sucks on time zone , i just honestly know that i am EST but i never never never remember how much time there's a difference between EST and PST or CST as an example of course..

anyway i read this morning an useless topic that wasnt a playonline news and it says.. if i remember , that Tokyo was still having some ''Blackrolling'' or whatever.. my question is simple , in Japan right now we're suposed to be March 22nd and on PoL they said that they would put the server back in on March 22nd ... im not saying that at midnight 00:00 they need to reput the server back in but i think its a good news that they didnt update the expanded delay on the shutdown


Below is an update regarding the temporary suspension of the FINAL FANTASY XIV, FINAL FANTASY XI, and PlayOnline services.

Originally, we announced that the services will be temporarily suspended for about a week starting on Mar. 13, 2011 3:00 (PDT). However, due to ongoing issues with the lack of energy, we have decided to extend the suspension until Mar. 22, 2011 (JST). We will re-evaluate the situation on Mar. 22, 2011 (JST) and provide everyone with another update regarding this matter.

We deeply apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, and thank you for your continued understanding of this unusual situation.

[Date & Time]
From Mar. 13, 2011 3:00 (PDT)

[Affected Service]
- FINAL FANTASY XIV
- FINAL FANTASY XI
- PlayOnline

* The following services, normally accessible from the official PlayOnline homepage (http://www.playonline.com/), will be unavailable during this time.

- Friend List Plus
- FINAL FANTASY XI Linkshell Community Beta Version
- PlayOnline Friend List Application
- Community Site Link Registration: Owner Menu

* Additionally, the following types of support will also be temporarily unavailable:
- PlayOnline Password Recovery
- PlayOnline Account Cancellation
- All activities requiring the confirmation of personal information

Just a matter of waiting to be honest..

bearing in mind RIGHT NOW

Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 1:03:23 AM JST

might be a little early.. even for those affected by natural disasters.


I think they will also need to *** the situation when they wake up get to work etc. I cant see them getting up and "flipping the switch" as such. They said they'd provide update on 22nd so I wouldnt be suprised if you dont hear anything for the next 9 hours.

EST and JST currently have a 13h difference, so atm, its 1am JST. I highly doubt people at SE expected to take a decision at midnight. A decision should be taken in a couple of hour.

Yes i only think its a good news that we didnt had a delay expanded update like we had on March 18th when the server was suposed to be back by March 20nd

i think its borderline at moment, the JP govn't are being very "day to day" as to what they are advising and rightly so

It's now 01:04 am JST, March 22 in Japan. The announcement will come in 23 or so hours, probably less. If you have a world clock on your cell phone, use it. If it's 10am EST, it's 9am CST, 8am MST and 7am PST

Yes its what im doing right now , like i once wrote on one of those topic this week i really hope the game will be back asap cause i have JP friends who can speak english a little and i didnt had news of them since the earthquake but in another hand i truly wish everyone in japan right now is doing allright... so yea some part of me wants the game back to re-contact everyone i lost contact since and the other part want them to be allright , i dont like seeing the nuclear reaction on news every night but its impossible for me to avoid that news since i want to know everything about japan , if only couple years ago i woulda asked my jp friends msn or google i would be able today to know if they are allright or not.... :3

UK hasnt done daylight savings yet .

Daylight savings starts 27th March

Well I think the Japanese people/Government want to get their businesses back to business.. Nothing heals like normalcy returning to your lives after a traumatic event, and they want to stabilize their economic issues quickly no doubt.

I expect the servers to come back up at some point today, but I don't mind them having some coffee , reading the newspaper , and maybe having some breakfast before they do :P

Unbelievable kudos to the Japanese people for the way they conduct themselves under pressure and terrible circumstances.

I agree with this.. i have a feeling it will be up..
Else why would they only delay it by a few days instead of another week?

Yes they'll still have enforced blackouts in certain areas.. but wasnt it mentioned before that these servers/offices are in areas that have only been affected by the "do the rest of the country" regime rather than any "actual" tsunami effect?

might be wrong and it was just hearsay tho.

At risk of sounding pretentious or snarky, (apologies), there's technically no such thing as "JST" or "JDT."

They only have one time zone and don't practice daylight savings time, so it's just "Japan Time" (日本時刻）.

well SE said it.. so i believe them.. :P

Or Nippon Time if you are feeling frisky?

Might wanna tell SE that :P

The last time they posted anything was 5PM PST, so assume around that time we should know something, or sometime after that for that matter.

Probably after 5 more hours we MAY have an update...

google says:

Japan Standard Time




It could imply that J-man was just referring to the fact that Japan doesn't practice daylight savings time.

think its referred to as JST purely to the fact that timezones are shorthanded to three letters regardless of whether they observe daylight savings or not

CET, UTC, JST, BST, GMT etc etc

(ps jaerik nice "search" change..)