Sorry, but I have to say that time is wrong. Ed was *very* clear in the live stream that this was placeholder text and *not* an accurate estimation of when the servers would get switched on. It will be sometime on the 27th, but exactly when is as big a mystery to FDev as it is to us. The only thing we know timewise is that come midnight we'll be able to make/connect up FDev accounts and start playing the training missions officially (instead of the way the physical disc owners have got to play them early, the lucky things<g>)
I agree with Jintosh.
The only things we currently know for certain are:
1) the countdown clock is for digital downloaders to provide access to the training missions and challenges.
2) at some point during the day of the 27th the game servers will be taken down to patch in 2.3.10
Only once the servers are back, will everyone (all three platforms) be allowed in.
Historic track record suggests that this will be mid afternoon but until Frontier give a formal indication of how long things will take no-one knows.