If you pre-ordered a physical edition or plan to buy one on release day, you will have to wait until retailers open their doors on May 12th or attend a midnight launch party. Japanese players will also get the short end of the stick, barely beating New Zealand’s launch with a 1 pm JST release.Īs usual, all the above information only applies to digital copies. Since Tears of the Kingdom is launching worldwide while also tied to the United States’ East Coast schedule, New Zealand players will receive the game last at 4 PM NZST. However, this technique, known as the New Zealand Time Zone Trick, only works when a title follows a staggered release window and launches in each time zone as it reaches midnight. Technically, the New Zealand Standard Time zone reaches midnight before every other time zone, so audiences have learned they can trick servers into thinking they live in New Zealand to play games early. Ironically, this release schedule comes at the cost of gamers who can normally play titles before the rest of the world. Since the East Coast is three hours ahead of the West Coast, audiences in the PST time zone can start playing Tears of the Kingdom at 9 pm their time. However, since Nintendo titles hit digital storefronts across the globe at the same time, some regions will technically receive copies early (at least as far as daily schedules are concerned). This is standard practice for Nintendo, as an FAQ states digital copies of games are generally released at midnight EST. Michael Antle, whose chronobiology lab at the University of Calgary studies circadian rhythms in mammals, calls this the three clock problem: Our internal circadian clocks - an ancient adaptation that sets our wake and sleep cycles - naturally want to follow the solar clock, but are ruled by the social clock of work and school.Īntle points to research that indicates increased risk of heart disease, obesity, diabetes, and certain types of cancers for residents at the western edge of times zones as compared to their neighbours at the eastern edge of the next time zone, who enjoy earlier sunrises.The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is scheduled to be released at the following times: 9:00 AM PDT (May 11), 10 PM MT (May 11) 11 PM CT (May 11), 12 AM ET (May 12), 5 AM BST (May 12), and 1 PM JST (May 12).Īs you can see, Tears of the Kingdom‘s release is based on a global schedule. In the 1880s, when trains allowed higher speed travel between these disparate localized time zones, 15-degree longitudinal standard time zones were introduced - in part by Canadian Sir Sandford Fleming - to keep trains running on time, while making sure the times of day still roughly lined up with the sun.īut, in Canada, where a single time zone might stretch across nearly 30 degrees of longitude and over 40 degrees of latitude, people at the western and northern reaches of their time zones are sentenced to a kind of eternal jet lag, their circadian rhythms perpetually at odds with the alarm clocks they set for work and school. “New York’s day started a minute before Newark’s, five minutes before Philadelphia’s, 12 minutes after Boston’s,” writes Clarke Blaise in his book, “Time Lord.”
Ditching standard time would make it worse.īefore standardized time, every town was in its own local time zone set to precise solar noon - people woke up with the sun and when it was directly overhead, it was 12 p.m. With everyone across this massive territory waking up around the same time for work and school, many Canadians are left in the dark. EST covers about 60 degrees of latitude before it hits the southernmost point of United States at Key West. These cities and hamlets are all in the Eastern Standard Time zone, which includes Canada’s most northern point at Cape Columbia, Nunavut and its most southern at Middle Island, Lake Erie. In Grise Fiord, Canada’s most northerly community, the sun won’t rise until 12:12 p.m. in Toronto 7:51 in Thunder Bay 9:16 in Igloolik, Nunavut, and 10 a.m. On Sunday, most Canadians - except in Yukon, which uses permanent daylight saving and Saskatchewan and other isolated pockets who observe standard time year round - will set their clocks back one hour.
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