It just struck me while looking at lots that I don't know what time the bidding closes. I know it says 10:59 PM EST, but exactly what time is that, say, converted to CDT or PST?

10:59 pm, ET translates to 9:59, CT, 8:59 MT, 7:59, PT and 5:59, HI ... and, if memory serves (it doesn't always do so for us "geezers"), that's about 3 or 4 tomorrow morning in London ...

Steve: Or 3 AM in the Arabian Gulf. But isn't 10 AM EST -- depending on where you live in the eastern time zone, and what month of the year it is -- the same as 11 AM EDT, which is the same as 10 AM CDT, which is the same as 9 AM EST. So I'm wondering what time do the lots close?

Put in those terms, it really IS confusing, itn't it? ... I see your point

I don't know what you are talking about exactly. But I use the time on the upper left and compare it to the on the aution item. And them count on my toes. But the auctions seem to start closing at 9:00pm EST and some last until almost 12:00 EST.
It is 10:39am here in The Republic of Texas. Home of our great leader, The Big Dubya!

No, in the Republic of Texas it's somewhere around 1836. Here in Texas, it's 11:05 AM CDT.

An easy way for me to figure it out ... since Pennsylvania is three hours ahead of California, I just add on three hours to what ever time it is here.

Never mind...I guess I've been smoking too many Ras Tafaris.

If its 9 am it must be Sweden unless you took a plane.

sammy ......
whatever time it is at your house, it's probably only a minute or two later at my house ... I'll contact you for the time of day when I next need to know, ok?

Its post time.

Why it's 11:02 PM!

(Kuwait time!)

So it's a different time for all you guys...from London to Kuwait...that's real helpful...but if a lot closes tonight at 10:59 EST -- that's eastern "standard" time -- I'm saying I don't know what time that is. If it's closing in an area around Indianapolis (I spent a year there one week), it's 10:59 EST. But if you're a few miles outside town, and it's Jun 25, then it's 11:59 EDT -- that's eastern daylight time. I can do the add-an-hour drop-an-hour conversion. I just want to point out there's a loophole in the closing time shown on lots. (I guess CBid might be in one of those twilight time zones.) I don't hang around to see lots close, so I just wanted to know what time that happens... you know, whatever that time is.

Your message is quite confusing. It sounded like to transplanted to Texas from another message? If so, The lots close one hour earlier than they say.
If not, This will work, look at the time in the upper left of this screen. Now look at the time on your computers toolbar. Subtract the hours and the auction will close that many hours earlier for your time zone. (If you are in the USA)

Okay, I'll try that...the time in the upper left corner of this page says 4:46 PM EST. Now, I'll look at my watch...Hum, it says 3:47 PM CDT (I try to jump out of here a little earlier than everyone else). But when I try to compare and covert the two, I come up with either 2:47 PM CDT or 5:46 EDT, because, I don't know where CBid hang it's clock. Ya'll (we like to say "ya'll" in Texas) create a loophole when you express Internet time in either "standard" or "daylight savings." Better to drop that distinction and use ET, CT, MT or PT. When the Russians converted to daylight savings time in the early 1990's (they never signed the international accord), they lost 17 months. I guess that's a small price for the freedom to do nothing anytime of the day.

Ok, we are getting somewhere. The bids close one hour earlier than they say they do. Don't worry about the daylight savings stuff. It will ALWAYS be one hour erlier. To make yourself more comfortable with this... The Quickies will open when your watch says 11:00am. That will correspond to noon, C-bid Time.
As for the answer to the post heading. I just made a picture,pitchur,pichur,... Dangit a large quantity of very strong stawberry dacury. So, it is time to pour a big glass full and get in my convertable and light up a fat cigar and drive the winding roads of the hill country.
I hope all of you know what time it is!

...of course, it's armadillo time...

Steve, It sounds like if I need to know what time it is I only need to ask YOU and then add a couple of minutes, or is it subtract?

The closing thing isn't that confusing if you can grasp the concept of time zones. Eastern time is the latest time zone in the USA and Western is the earliest, there are three hours difference. When it is 10 am in the eastern zone it is 3 hours earlier in the western zone, or 7 am. When an auction closes at 10 pm eastern it closes at the same exact moment in the west which would be 7pm. Damn, now I'm confused!!

Armadillos, Russians, Kuwaitis, Londoners, the Texas Hill country, PA and all the other stuff aside, the closing (or opening) time on CB is 3 hours EARLIER on my clock (+/- a minute or two, depending on the accuracy of different clocks) different than MY time ... that is, the quickies that open at noon, open at MY 9am ... In Aug when I travel to the Rockies, it will be a 2 hour difference, if I went to Texas to visit a friend there, it would be a 1 hour difference and if I were to go to Boston where my son lives, I'd be on be the same time as CB .... of course, if I went to Japan, today's closing times would come at a weird time tomorrow, but that's a whole 'nuther kettle of confusion ...

It's time 4 a scotch rocks and Padron 4000 maddy. X