OOP: When can it be sold?

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "ecaplan_52556" 
<harryp at s...> wrote:
> My local bookseller (Iowa, USA) insists that they cannot sell OOP
> before June 21, 12:01 Central Daylight Savings Time.  But I
> thought that the restriction was no sales before 12:01 British
> Summer Time.  Doubly unfortunate for me, I live in a small
> town and none of the stores will be open past midnight, so I
> need to wait until the next morning to buy, 14-16 hours after
> release!
> 
> If it is BST, then I should be able to buy OOP at June 20, 18:01
> in Iowa, USA... Right?

Tess (me):
I feel your pain (I'm in Missouri myself), but my impression has 
always been that the book will go on sale around the world at the 
*later* of a) 12:01 a.m. BST; or, b) 12:01 a.m. local time. I may be 
wrong or simply delusional, but that's what's been in my head for 
the past 5 months.

I've read that people in Australia, etc., will have to wait until 
hours later in their day to sell the book, because not until 
sometime Saturday morning over there will it be midnight in Britain. 
And those of us west of Britain have to wait until midnight in our 
locales, even though that's later than the Brits will get the book.

So essentially, if what I'm thinking is right, Britain and points 
east will have an instantaneous release at one minute past midnight 
BST, while points west will be staggered--new releases every hour, 
as new areas reach local midnight and the calendar turns to June 21.

Which means I'm checking my email tomorrow afternoon before work 
(around 3 p.m. CDT) and then avoiding the Internet at all costs 
until I've purchased and read my copy--I don't want to come across 
spoilers from people who've obtained the book (legally :o) a full 6 
hours before I have!

Tess
really missing her home state of Ohio, because it's on EDT and if 
she still lived there she'd get the book only *5* hours after the 
BST release ...