Starship Asterisk*

Hello folks,

I was just curious if anyone knew the time and time zone in which the APOD gets updated? For example, I might expect it to be 00:00 UTC - though I've no idea if this is actually correct.


(I could of course check this out myself, though it would involve some intensive trial and error, which I'm hoping to avoid.)

Many thanks.

Midnight Eastern time (US East Coast).

Thanks. Is it pretty reliably always midnight?

Yes, it is, though it might take a bit (couple of minutes, maybe) to propagate across servers. (I assume you're talking about the main APOD site and not a mirror.)

I am indeed. Thanks for your quick responses.

Now I can put this information into Task Scheduler so that my APOD wallpaper gets updated precisely at the right time. 00:10 sounds like a good bet.

You're welcome, and welcome to Asterisk!

The only time it fails is when the power goes out at the APOD server. It happened once in the last couple of years that I remember.