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Comment by ColinWright | Hacker News Reader

Don't know if it's just me, but I'm finding it enormously frustrating to work out when this launch will be. I know things change, but would it be so hard to have it prominently displayed somewhere the expected time in local, with the timezone, and GMT so others can work out what time it will be where they are?

Currently on this stream it says 15:30 ... what time zone is that?

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It's internal testing. I don't think they actually want to encourage people watching.

For good reason, I suspect. Most of the friends/family I showed the SN8 belly-flop and "landing" to were like, "oh no, is SpaceX screwed now?" I had to explain that giant explosions are a fact of life when testing rocket prototypes.

The YouTube popup gives local time. 15:30 seems to be UTC.

UTC is the only civilized timezone.

Thank you.

Apologies if I'm covering something you're already aware of, but that time is just Tim's (Everyday Astronaut's) best guess at when to start streaming.

The actual launch time is unknown to everyone outside of SpaceX. For SN8 SpaceX published a live stream of their own a few minutes before launch, but we don't even know if they'll do that this time.

Noted ... thanks.

(I did know, but it's useful to have the comment here for anyone else who's reading this).

The launch time changes constantly, as there's no real time provided by SpaceX: everything is an estimate based on road closures and NOTAMs.

If you want to keep track of this launch (and all other launches that happen), I've made a tiny Telegram bot that sends notifications before a launch happens: https://t.me/rocketrybot

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