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Comment by Nerd_hooligan | Hacker News Reader

I thought the start is tomorrow?

Define tomorrow? It is past midnight for Beijing and Tokyo for example.

UTC would be reasonable standard meaning 6 and half hours still to go.

Even most of Europe would be already in the 12th by that metric, not to mention around 70% of the world's population.

Nope, it is not midnight even in Moscow timezone so European part of Russia. Which is most Eastern part.

I am responding to "UTC being a reasonable standard".

The link shows which subreddits have turned private. Many have begun already as it is currently the 12th in many timezones.

For many people in the world, it's the 12th already.

It's always tomorrow somewhere--or something like that. :)

Remember, when you wake up on June 11th in the USA, June 11th is almost over for most of the world.

A bunch of subs started today

Correct. OP jumped the gun on this post.

Given that there are currently 655/5279 already private, no, they didn't jump the gun.

Edit: 1 minute later already 658.

Edit: 2 minutes later 661.

Edit: 2 3/4 hours later 840.

I'm clicking on some of them, and can still view the posts?

Do you have an example? I tried a sampling of private subs, none showed posts for me.

Oh never mind, I didn't realize that the mechanism was to go private. I thought that all the subreddits listed were already dark.

looks like its a website monitoring the subreddit statuses with a handful of them having already gone private

Ah, my mistake. I wasn't aware some subreddits had already started, thought it was supposed to start tomorrow.

The fun has begun ;)

It's also tomorrow in some countries already!

Just the title. The page itself acknowledges that the strike is scheduled to start tomorrow:

“These subreddits are going dark or read-only on June 12th and after. ”