MyLot - When It's Midnight in Kansas

@owlwings (43915)
Cambridge, England
June 30, 2016 7:38am CST
Midnight in Kansas - when the moon shines on the corn - on the last day of every month is when it is decided whether and how much you will be paid (or not) by the 15th of the following month. So when is 'midnight' on 30 June? Kansas City (and Overland Park, which is where MyLot lives) is 5 hours behind UST, so the 'cut off' point for you depends on where you are! If you are somewhere on the North American continent, you are probably very familiar with the change in times and will know that, for example, if you are on the West Coast, midnight Central Time is at 10pm your time. In other countries, Midnight in Kansas is UTC-5h so in: - INDIA it will be 10:30am on 1 July - The PHILIPPINES it will be 1:00pm on 1 July - CHINA (Beijing) it will be 1:00pm on 1 July - AUSTRALIA (Canberra) it will be 3:00pm on 1 July (Australians should know how to convert from Canberra time) - NEW ZEALAND it will be 5:00pm on 1 July - SOUTH AFRICA it will be 7:00am on 1 July Have I missed anyone? If you can't work it out, tell me your location and I'll tell you when the deadline is for you! I offer my commiserations to you if you haven't made it to $5 by midnight tonight. Nevetr mind, MyLot will carry over what you have to the following month, so better luck next time!
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@Lucky15 (37346)
• Philippines
30 Jun 16
The reason why i keep two "clocks" on my phone. Cst and Ph time
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@dpk262006 (58673)
• Delhi, India
1 Jul 16
@Lucky15 - You are very smart.
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@hereandthere (45671)
• Philippines
30 Jun 16
i've been meaning to post something like this. here is an online time converter site that others might want to use. just change the location.
Effortless time conversion and world time. Schedule conference calls, webinars & online meetings, plan travel and track flight arrival time across time zones.
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@dpk262006 (58673)
• Delhi, India
1 Jul 16
Thanks for sharing the link.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
30 Jun 16
Here in England midnight will occur at 6 AM on 1st July.
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@MALUSE (69428)
• Germany
30 Jun 16
What about Central Europe? I don't know what UST means? Should I?
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
30 Jun 16
Midnight in Kansas will constitute 7 AM the following day for Germany.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
30 Jun 16
@hereandthere Yes, much of Europe is.
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• Philippines
30 Jun 16
@Asylum so germany is 1 hr ahead of uk
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@JudyEv (323672)
• Rockingham, Australia
30 Jun 16
Thanks for this. I'm sure many will be pleased to know this - about payments - providing they actually read it right through.
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@Mike197602 (15489)
• United Kingdom
30 Jun 16
I'm normally good at time zones although got confused by the various US zones. Portugal surprised me when I was a kid and learned that they were on the same time as me.
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
30 Jun 16
I was caught out by the same thing. I had been to Spain many times and therefore expected Portugal to be the same.
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@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
30 Jun 16
hi Owl wings hatley here yep Im on the west coast so my goose is cooked by nine pm but Im do ing okay as I have eighten dollars and thirteen wople cents this e arly morning so mayhbe ninetteen by nine pm I sort of hope I was shooting for twenty but sort of lagged behind early morning now
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@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
30 Jun 16
As JJ pointed out, it's actually by 10pm!
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@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
30 Jun 16
@owlwings then I have a little more time loll
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@much2say (53664)
• Los Angeles, California
5 Jul 16
No matter what the time or location, I didn't make it - period. But I will say I finally made it yesterday, on our July 4th - and they even displayed fireworks all over the nation to congratulate me!
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@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
6 Jul 16
I heard about the fireworks. I didn't realise that they were for you! Mind you, I heard that a lot of Americans don't really know what they were for or who they were celebrating independence from! I'm now wondering whether the British should have fireworks every year on 23 June - "Brexit Day". People still celebrate the Battle of Hastngs (one of our more spectacular defeats), so why not! Anyway, you can now look forward to a few dollars (which will buy you a few more British pounds than they would have done a fortnight ago) in your PayPal account sometime before the middle of August!
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@crossbones27 (48321)
• Mojave, California
30 Jun 16
Darn it, Mylot is from Kansas. I guess I better tone down my political rhetoric. lol My 2 other brothers actually live in Olathe Kansas.
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@koopharper (7422)
• Canada
30 Jun 16
In North America but I'm in the Atlantic time zone. We are two hours off Central time. Newfoundland has a weird timezone. They're two and a half hours different than central. I've surpassed five bucks to my surprise.
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• Canada
30 Jun 16
@JolietJake I think they just want to be special.
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@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
30 Jun 16
I didn't know that Newfoundland has a half hour difference. I thought it was only India (UST+5:30) that did that. I should have looked at the map more closely!
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• Canada
30 Jun 16
@owlwings Most Canadians probably aren't aware of this either.
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@jstory07 (133739)
• Roseburg, Oregon
7 Jul 16
I never keep track of the time o see if I made it by midnight or not.
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@LadyDuck (454979)
• Switzerland
30 Jun 16
Yes, you missed my little country, but I know when is midnight in Kansas will be 7 am here in Switzerland, the same as South Africa.
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• United States
30 Jun 16
lol :) yer so danged cute, my winged friend. i've nary a clue's to what time zone's where, 've diff'culties with such'n the family. the daughter's an hour 'hind, the youngest son'n hour 'head. kind'f ya to offer yer condolences to those who'll not reach that 'magic number'.
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@responsiveme (22932)
• India
2 Jul 16
Thank you.This is very helpful. A first person geography lesson. I didn't make it to payout ,so I'll have to wait till 10.30 am on first August.
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@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
3 Jul 16
Work hard ... but have fun (that's the most important bit). Good luck!
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• India
3 Jul 16
@owlwings I'll go with your second option. Thanks.
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@dpk262006 (58673)
• Delhi, India
1 Jul 16
Very interesting information.. I enjoyed going through it. It will surely help those, who live in different parts of world. It would have also made many mylotters smile who live in the Asian region, Australia or New Zealand because whatever contribution they make even on 1st July, 2016 that will be counted for payout.
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• China
1 Jul 16
Our city lies at longitude 117 east , about the same as Beijing (116.4),so I think it is 1:00 pm today.
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@Inlemay (17714)
• South Africa
6 Jul 16
thanks for not missing me!
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@BettyB (4117)
• Summerville, South Carolina
7 Jul 16
I missed the minimum by ten cents. I can't complain. I had other things to do so I didn't spend as much time here as I could have or should have. Some months I'll make it. Other months I will not. I'll get it in the end.
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1 Jul 16
hey its great piece of information,since I am a new user this will definitely help me.
@ilocosboy (45161)
• Philippines
30 Jun 16
Well, its almost midnight of June 30 here, 2 and a half hours more to go before the cut off.
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@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
30 Jun 16
@hereandthere That's correct. I mistakenly put 1pm June 30th when it should have been 1 July. I've now corrected that!
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• Philippines
30 Jun 16
no, @ilocosboy. it's not cut-off yet. as mentioned in the post, we in the philippines can mylot until 1pm (lunchtime) tomorrow, july 1.
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