News from Devialet? Countdown on website

[David A]

A lot of people seem to be assuming that because this is October that "10.10" is a date and it's the 10th of October but there's also the countdown on the website and my calculation indicates that countdown runs down to zero at 2.00 am Paris time on 9 October. I might have the time wrong but not the date so unless what they're planning to do is simply to change the website's opening screen on the 9th when the countdown runs out and tell us then what they're going to do on the 10th, this has nothing to do with the 10th of October.

You got the time right but the country wrong David   
It runs out at 2AM on the 9th in NSW Australia or better right on midnight (8th to 9th) in New Zealand, the first country to start a new day. So 10.10 might just stand for a surround system with 10 speakers and 10 subwoofers. 

Most likely though, someone just stuffed up the count down and the date actually is the 10th. The initial email was sent out over the weekend so it wouldn't surprise me if in a few hours, when the Paris office opens, the clock will suddenly have another 24 hours added.

I might just make this my prediction for the 2018 Almanac; someone stuffs up the count down clock. 

No, Pim, I didn't get the time wrong. I was looking at a world clock display for Paris when I did my calculation. I just checked Devialet's web site and it's 3.02 pm on the 8th here in Brisbane just north of you and the countdown is saying 18 hours 58 od minutes which means it runs out tomorrow, the 9th, at 10.00 am here in Brisbane which is 2.00 am tomorrow morning in Paris. I've got the time calculation right.

You mentioned the possibility of the clock being reset. I had the feeling some time ago that it had already been reset because it wasn't showing the time remaining that I expected to see. I wouldn't be surprised if the countdown timer is no more reliable than Devialet are when it comes to delivering on time but that shouldn't surprise us because it is their timer :-)

I did have a rather crazy thought a while ago about what it might be. The time bothers me, 2.00 am in Paris? Not a time for something to happen but perhaps a time in another time zone so maybe it's something coming from someone else but whatever it is concerns Devialet.

Anyway I have my doubts that whatever it is will be as big a thing as all this ridiculousness is meant to suggest. I think it's more likely the countdown will end with a whimper than a bang, to steal a phrase from T.S. Eliot.