Wayne Hammond
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This was posted on Grassroots Central also, but we may have some newer members who are hanging out here for the Tea Party... some folks are confused about WHEN to donate their money...
ALL donations for the Tea Party should be made between the hours of 12:01 a.m. and 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on Sunday, December 16th, 2007.
This is the time period that the official site www.RonPaul2008.com uses and it will be the time period that the press uses to calculate whether or not we raise our $10 million in one 24-hour period.
On the Nov. 5th money bomb, I remember a lot of donations came in in the hour or two after 12 midnight on Nov. 5th - and were not counted towards the total for Nov. 5th. These were probably donations from folks living in the western US time zones, who thought that they were donating on the 5th. This Dec. 16, we need to maximize our donation efforts and make sure everyone's donation counts on the correct day.
EDIT: The countdown ticker on www.TeaParty07.com is not good enough, since that seems to work off of users' own computer clock, which may or may not be set to the correct time/date.
Edit again: If you need to know what time it is in Eastern Standard Time, click on the link below (you'll need java on your computer):
http://www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?Eastern/d/-5/java
If you don't have java on your computer (or you're not sure), click here for the correct time:
http://www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?Eastern/d/-5
Edit: Thought this guy's post should be added to the original post:
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ALL donations for the Tea Party should be made between the hours of 12:01 a.m. and 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on Sunday, December 16th, 2007.
This is the time period that the official site www.RonPaul2008.com uses and it will be the time period that the press uses to calculate whether or not we raise our $10 million in one 24-hour period.
On the Nov. 5th money bomb, I remember a lot of donations came in in the hour or two after 12 midnight on Nov. 5th - and were not counted towards the total for Nov. 5th. These were probably donations from folks living in the western US time zones, who thought that they were donating on the 5th. This Dec. 16, we need to maximize our donation efforts and make sure everyone's donation counts on the correct day.
EDIT: The countdown ticker on www.TeaParty07.com is not good enough, since that seems to work off of users' own computer clock, which may or may not be set to the correct time/date.
Edit again: If you need to know what time it is in Eastern Standard Time, click on the link below (you'll need java on your computer):
http://www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?Eastern/d/-5/java
If you don't have java on your computer (or you're not sure), click here for the correct time:
http://www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?Eastern/d/-5
Edit: Thought this guy's post should be added to the original post:
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