What changed
The updated official US forum post is now titled WoW Forever Stress Test October 21 and specifies the October 21 regional schedule. The older Blizzard news article 24302072 still appears in official search-indexed material with October 19.
We use the later forum update for scheduling and retain the older article as a source for the installation and participation instructions. The exact edit time was not established from the accessible post, so we do not invent a minute-by-minute change history.
The local date depends on the region
Europe: October 21, 19:00 CEST (17:00 UTC). Americas and Oceania: October 21, 14:00 PDT (21:00 UTC). Taiwan: October 22, 05:00 Taipei. Korea: October 22, 06:00 KST.
The different UTC instants are deliberate regional information in the announcement. They are not interchangeable timezone labels. Use the time tool to show the correct regional instant where you live.
What to update in your own plan
Remove or revise reminders you created for October 19. An imported ICS file is not a live schedule subscription.
Check your game region and your display timezone separately.
Install or update the stress-test entry in Battle.net before the new opening.
Share the updated source link with your group instead of forwarding an undated search snippet.
What the date change does not establish
Moving the start date does not provide a precise end time, guarantee a realm will be available the instant your timer reaches zero, or create a reward promise. Those are separate pieces of information.
Our schedule and source notes share the same current baseline. If an official update changes it again, we will revise the regional data and explain the correction rather than silently preserving conflicting dates.
Official sources
Sources checked: UTC. Page updated: .