I can't timezones good and also I have no idea what time this shit tends to get called anyway
Not to worry, the election will be contested so they'll drag it out for at least another month.
Polls close in like 12 hours for most of the country. You can check the results in 12 days after that
We like never have the results by the end of the first day or accurate results anyway, i say just check when you wake up tomorrow for a good idea
2016 was called for Trump by most outlets at like 2 AM on election night, so we do usually have good enough results to say with a high level of certainty who won.
Not gonna happen this year though.
Pretty sure we pretty much always have an accurate result on the first day unless Bush (or Trump) wants to do fuckery.
eh don't bother staying up for it, you'll get headlines enough to know whats going on the next day.
Just go to bed and tomorrow morning we can wake up to the news, the courts stopped the count and Trump was declared the winner.
Unless it’s an absolute landslide, I’d set your alarm for about a month from now.
Gave it some serious thought, but I've decided free healthcare is pretty rad
Of course they are, but they're still racking their brains as to how they'll pitch it, and the 'rona was a very good proverbial stick in the bicycle spokes for that effort, which they were absolutely not expecting.
Oh absolutely. We DO need to guillotine a few Tories, you're not wrong.
Very early results will start coming through at like midnight UK time. If Biden wins big, then I think we could know that by something like 2-3am UK time. Apparently Georgia, North Carolina and Florida are all expected to count their votes quickly - if Biden wins any one of them it all but guarantees that he wins, if Trump wins all of them then it probably means a close election that drags on for days, since the swing states that are expected to be slightly more blue-leaning than those three will count very slowly.
I don't know why everyone is talking about the West coast states, because the only way any of them are in doubt is if someone is winning a massive landslide.
American times are mostly pretty easy to understand because their media almost always use Eastern time (aka EST, or EDT during daylight savings), and if they mention something in another time zone they usually give the Eastern equivalent too. For most of the year, you just add five hours on to get to UK time. Unfortunately there are two brief periods a year where it's four hours, because Europe and North America go into daylight savings on different dates for some reason, but we've just come out of one of those.
Any state that takes more than 24 hours to get the votes counted is deliberately ratfucking, CMV.
It's not that fucking hard to count mail in votes.
you're like 8 hours ahead of the west coast so you could probably just wake up at a normal time and see the results lol. assuming that all the votes get counted tomorrow
It’ll be late. Like 3 or 4 am British time is when the polls close on the west coast, I think.
But undoubtedly some lines will be long enough that people will still be voting after that, and it seems unlikely all the ballots will even be counted tonight.
Time Zones: Explained
Imagine the globe. Now, cut it in half so you separate the part illuminated by the sun from the part in shadow. The point that’s in the middle of the dark half is midnight, and the point that’s in the middle of the light half is noon.
For the purpose of this example, it is noon in London, and the UK occupies the center point on the sunlit half of the globe. A lot of the US is five to seven hours behind the UK, waking up at dawn, as the darkness recedes. A quarter of the world away.
Moscow is three hours ahead of the UK. Half as far from London as the US, but in the opposite direction.
Beijing is five hours ahead of Moscow, or eight hours ahead of the UK. Just about three-eighths of the world away. The sun has been down for two hours.
It is midnight over the Pacific Ocean, half the world away from London.
Obviously territorial shit and legal nonsense makes the reality a little less clean than this example, but the central premise is if you want to know what time it is somewhere, know how far away it is.
