What Time Does Poweplay Cycle Tick Over?

As per the title, I assume each cycle ends on a Friday, but can anyone (dev preferred) please confirm what time the current cycle ends and the new one begins (British Summer Time)?
 
They didn't say in the manual:

"Powerplay runs in cycles, each one lasting a continuous week in real-time.
A cycle represents the amount of time it takes for powers to take significant actions. At the end of each cycle, all actions started within it are resolved and the power’s CC reserve for the next cycle is computed."


I would guess its early Monday morning since weekends see the most number of players.
 
All of the Powerplay expansion activities say they have 4 days remaining, which implies the deadline is any time between early Thursday evening and early Friday evening. 1.3 dropped at 15:30 BST and was generally up and running at about 20:00, so my guess is somewhere around that time, however that's a pretty broad range, and should be clarified with more precision
 
I would like clarification on this as well.

I would also like to know how casting votes for Nominating works. Will there be a window for Nominations to be submitted? If so how will it work to allow players across different timezones to vote fairly?
 
Don't the servers go down for routine weekly maintenance at 7am (or 7:30am) GMT on Fridays? I'd be surprised if the Powerplay calculations weren't done during that outage, with the new cycle starting when the servers come back online.
 
At a guess I'd say the reason that they made the extra effort to release 1.3 on a Friday--contrary to most expectations--was that Friday, the day the newsletters are released, is the day they want cycles to tick over and they didn't want to give us a partial cycle to start off with.

this makes a lot of sense. But why didn´t they say that openly then?
 
At a guess, they've been working right up until Friday to make sure 1.3 was ready, and didn't want to risk putting out an announcement that it would be Friday and then end up not quite being ready on the day. Still needs clarification on the cycle end deadline though, since 7am, 3:30pm and 8ish pm all seem plausible candidates
 
It says 3 days right now.
Not sure when it changed from 4, but maybe you can use that as an indication.

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I would like clarification on this as well.

I would also like to know how casting votes for Nominating works. Will there be a window for Nominations to be submitted? If so how will it work to allow players across different timezones to vote fairly?

From what I've read it just bumps up the preparation value of that system.
No idea by how much, but I don't think you have a specific time that you need to place your vote by, but obviously voting early would be more helpful to get things started.
 
So will this be when we rank up? I have 130 merits but haven't gained rank 2 yet and assumed it was done when the cycle ticked over
 

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I'd probably guess when we get into the last day it might change into an hour based countdown timer. Then we'll know :)
 
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