The Official Download Day Time

Let me just add: swell move, to have all the world waiting for 10 am PDT, only to have the servers flooded ; instead of diffusing some of those download requests earlier, while the US could've slept peacefully
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this version of firefox is my most favorite ever! i used firefox since phoenix and i love this version the most! good job mozilla!

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Es un honor formar parte de este record, es un exelente producto Firefox :D http://www.noticiasfutbol.com.ar

Was it true?

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hi
i have put the latest Firefox 3 download bar on my blog.
http://hackiteasy.blogspot.com
Also the trick to make firefox faster is also there on my blog...
see that for sure....

It seems like there is a way to fool the counting system cos' it seems like Liathuanians have downloaded 10% population! And it's growing fast.

i checked download.com and firefox 3 have been downloaded by 14,020,195 users! :D

I was under the impression that this was a day for the firefox community. I agree with alot of people that they realy botched the details of when this party was starting for people outside of the USA. Since the HQ is in the states, it only makes sense that they start the party in their time zone, if the hq was in another country, I would expect it to start in their timezone. That being said, they realy should have made the times more clear, either way I think the more important thing here is to make history for this great browser that we all apparently are very fond of. The more people that use fire fox means less people are useing IE, and that means less websites will use IE's crappy activeX on there sites. Thats what is important to myself, and I think thats what is important to everyone that participated in this event, and for the record, I do not think Americans are better, or more important then anyone else :)

btw, I appologize in advanced for my terrible spelling :)

Hello,
as you can see, there has been some confusion and some discussions regarding the date and time.

Here a quote from http://www.iso.org/iso/date_and_time_format

"How can one avoid confusion when a date like 08/04/02 has at least six different interpretations around the world?

A notation like 01/02/03 could mean 1 February 2003 or 2 January 2003 or 2 March 2001. Usually by deduction one can sort it out. Usually - but sometimes, huge and costly confusions can arise**. The problem is that all-numeric dates are not unambiguous and depend very much on local custom. That's usually OK within a country or region even if there are local inconsistencies between firms and administrations; but outside…?"

That is why they developed ISO 8601.
Basically it says to use the following time notation:

YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm +/- hh

The time notation is the 24 h notation.
(The "a.m." and "p.m." is ambiguous and is only being used in USA and Canada  and is not an international standard. Even the official canadian standard is the 24 h time format.)

The internet is not local, it is international.

So I really encourage you to use ISO 8601 in international events like Firefox Download Day.

Links:
http://www.iso.org/iso/date_and_time_format
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html

P.S.:

"ISO 8601 corresponds to the UN Working Party on the Facilitation of International Trade Procedures in its Recommendation 7.

The new format has already been adopted by many organizations worldwide. And many more should do so – to make their own lives simpler. And everybody else's."

** like the cost not getting the most out of "Firefox Download Day".

I'm not going to spend much effort trying to articulate my thoughts right now, but it's obvious that a whole load of youtube's commenting community got lost today, or was it yesterday? OH NO I'M SO CONFUSED BY DATES AND TIMES!!!!!!

If anyone feels *hard done by* by this *aweful PR stunt*, go to the tallest building near you, jump off and I'll pray that, as you're plummeting towards the ground, you catch your eyelid on a rusty nail and then land on a rusty bike with no seat.

Anyone has a problem, email me on totalsecret@gmail.com - BRING IT ON!

Pete *The Enygma* Shaw

This was the most poorly constructed PR stunt I ever seen. I have been a Firefox user since way back when and supported it fully. As mentioned, GMT time should have been used, anyone could figure that out. Second their equipment wasn't up to the task. I promoted Download Day on my blog and website by installing the supplied buttons. When I found out that the servers went down immediately, and my readers were getting blank white pages, I immediately removed the buttons and links. If links on my sites don't work, that makes me look bad. I may put the general links back and update the old ones to Firefox 3 at some point in time because I do like Firefox. But I can tell you my sites will never participate in any Firefox promotion again with planning such as just happened.

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Los creadores de www.anmero.es queremos felicitar a Firefox 3.0 por la gran acogida que está teniendo. 6 millones de descargas en 18 horas y aún no ha terminado, eso si que es un récord. Os invitamos a que sigáis el proceso entrando en http://www.anmero.es/index.php?not=008. Un saludo.

hy!
check out this link about firefox world record:
http://dan-socea.blogspot.com/2008/06/guinness-book-to-much-to-handle-fo...

I also wanted to participate and download the thing yesterday morning (the 17).
I wondered why the link wasn't there yet.
I expected to wait for 0:00 AM US time.
But when I saw I have to wait that the US'ers have finished their breakfast, it just pissed me off.

I'll download it this week-end, maybe.

I'll just add another comment to the pile... Please use GMT or UTC!

Not everyone lives in the US. I've never even heard of PDT! First I thought the P stood for Pacific (as in ocean) and assumed it would start at the International Date Line (GMT +12). I figured that would be really convenient, since everyone could actually download on June 17. I was thinking: good going Mozilla!

Yet nothing could be further from the truth... instead of considering the world, they focused only on the US. -_-"

I had pledged to download Firefox on June 17. So naturally I went to the Mozilla website to participate in the Download Day on June 17 and do my part. Instead:

• June 17 8.40 (GMT) Nothing to see.
• June 17 11.40 (GMT) Still at Firefox 2...
• June 17 12.38 (GMT) Still nothing new.
• June 17 15.20 (GMT) Did something go wrong?
• June 17 16.20 (GMT) Okay I give up. They must have some problem with their server and Download Day will probably never happen.
• June 18 7.10 (GMT) Heck? It was June 17 right? Checking my email reminder; yes, June 17. Then why can't I download till June 18?!?

Note: My timezone is GMT+1 or CET. Later I figured out the P in PDT actually does stand for Pacific, just not in the way I interpreted.

It's now 10 EEST (7 UTC), 11:17 hours more and I'll download. Yep, that'll be 21:17 EEST (18:17 UTC) - the Download 3 (THREE) Days will be over. What an offense - to have the Download *Day* of 17th of June starting on 18th on some locations and ending on 19th on just these locations... And claiming it to be 17th worldwide... Pathetic!!!

I only found out about the big Download Day happening when I came to the site because of a failed add-on installation. What a surprise. And great timing to boot. Of course I added my support by upgrading to Firefox 3 right away. I'm glad I was able to be a part of this record setting attempt. Seeing the figures so far, I can't believe that it won't be anything but a huge success. As much as I am online, I'm very much amazed I had not heard of this until my accidental discovery as it was happening. I can't wait to see how many Firefox 3 downloads make it into the record book! Best of luck! Bob - KB2ZGN

I have also downloaded it. =)

I don't understand why everybody seems to be in such an uproar about the release time. I thought it was pretty clear from day one that the release time was not going to be exact.

For the longest time the Firefox 3 release date was "when it is done", then when they thought they were ready they announced "late June" then "June 17" then finally "June 17 1:00pm Eastern US time". And each time there was alway the potential for unexpected delay. Personally, I think they did pretty well considering they were shooting at a moving target.

It's not like the plans were hidden in a disused lavatory in the cellar with a sign on the door reading "Beware of the leopard".

Lets all download Firefox and be happy!

I agree that the downloading time should have started at midnight, rather than in the morning. The P.D.T. is later than most of the timezones in the planet. Deferring the time any further makes the plan deferred TOO LONG for some areas.

Please remember that not all the world live in the USA, please use GMT world wide events, regards and happy download!

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Hi
I know most people are a little angry about all this problem but come out It will be very difficult do it with timezone because they want to set a record . think about it You can controller all the downloads in each timezone ??? it will be very difficult . And some people can continue download thanks of the anonymous proxy.They need the exactly count for set the record .
I think they think about all this.
Ok they are very busy prepare all this and the forgot to tell us about it . It is a big mistake
But a lot of people wait for it for a very long time . Its a party after all we wait 34 months for it and its finally here. Dont be angry. Collaborate

This is a important day to let the world to know firefox they are a lot of people that don't know firefox this is our chance to let the world know it

Bye
PD sorry my bad english

Guys, it is not about getting the download (RC3 is basically the same thing). It is about helping Mozilla make a world record. BTW, if you wait, you do get a certificate.

P.S. I am angry now as you guys, I stayed up t'il 12:00am in PDT, but I guess it was a waste of time.

...the home page download *graphic* (http://www.mozilla.com) as of 8:52AM MDT still shows Firefox 2! Eh? [edit: duplicate comment due to interrupted connection: SORRY!]

...the home page download *graphic* (http://www.mozilla.com) as of 8:52AM MDT still shows Firefox 2! Eh?

Yep. I wanted to download it this morning. I was ready to wait 00:00 US time. But I have been told to wait that the US-ers finish their breakfast.

That pissed me off!

I'll download it this week-end.

This site keeps getting "Connection Interrupted" error messages, I'm not sure that this site is going to withstand the Digg/Slashdot/Reddit effect when it hits their respective front pages in a couple of hours.

We'll see.

I really tried to find the time to download. But 'Spread Firefox's admin should pay more attention to Firefox users' and Firefox lovers' time. They are from all over the world and not just USA and expect to know the details. however this is very important matter.

GMT could be a better choice

I'm from IRAN

I'm not as upset about the world record being possibly messed up as I am for all those people who hosted huge download parties. By misleading everyone into thinking that it would start on GMT, a lot of people stayed up late on the 16th so they could all join together and download FF3 the minute it launched. But midnight came, and there's no link. All those people who dedicated a lot of their time and money to prepare an awesome launch party ended up with zip. No download link, thereby rendering the "download party" completely useless. Come on, Mozilla, people have to go to work the next day! You could have at least given the actual universal launch times earlier so people can plan their events around that time, and not when the parties have already started. So in the end, it was the hardcore FireFox fans, the ones who stayed up all night and threw parties, that lost out the most. I don't care what excuse people give for justifying the 10 a.m. PST launch time. When you look into the eyes of a disgruntled party host you know that Mozilla was in the wrong, period.

Unless they are being REALLY tactical in this operation. Perhaps theyre nt thinking that USA is centre of universe, rather that it has a large population and so therefore, more likely to break a world record?

This doesnt make me in favour of this situation, because 6pm UK time is poor, however I can still a lot of people boycotting this whole process.

where can i find the link for FF3 in spanish ?

I would like to first say that it makes perfect sense for Moz. to launch Firefox in their home time zone. They are trying to set a world record here, a record which doesn't exist yet (at least that is what I have heard). Perhaps it was easier for them to do it that way, instead of trying to figure out how to get the entire thing up and running on a global time format. Second: you can't make everyone happy. The people at Moz are doing their jobs. I say we leave them to it. Firefox will be up and running as promised. It may not be at the time we are expecting it, but it will be there. Get off your high horses and just leave them be. Third: This is their first attempt at anything of this nature. There are bound to be mistakes that have been made. I dare any one of you neigh sayers to show me someone who got something complicated done right the first time around. This is how we learn. We make mistakes, and we do it better next time. Fourth: All the whining, bitching and name calling (pitiful, arrogant American slugs! and so on according to your country) just shows how infantile you people really are. Grow up, stop slinging sticks and stones and start acting your ages. Its a web browser, for Pete's sake, not the Holy Grail. My piece is said, have a nice day.

wow!!!!! people still waiting it :d i got it i didnt noticed that but all formus are waiting it :DDD hahaha

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Peace!!!