I looked at twitter, it has been as early as 1:30pm eastern and as late as 8:30 - but the average seems to be about 2:30pm eastern... and not always on Wednesday. Is that right, more experienced players?
There is a lot of variation. You are right that tests don't always open on Wednesday, but Pepper_Rose stated in another thread that they were planning on a Wednesday to Friday test this time (no time of day mentioned).
Since we know the test is Wed thru Fri, and I imagine it would close around 5ish PST I would hope it would open Wed soon after the dev's get into work. I would think they might have to check out some last minute code, but hope it's earlier rather than later.
GiaTori: If it's 10am where you are now, then it's only 7:18 am where they are. Usually they won't open earlier than 10am-12pm their time... which would be 1pm-3pm your time.
I'm on the East Coast but I don't work before 8:00 am either and when I launch websites @ my agency, it's never before afternoon -- when I have all my developers / staff on hand.
The weather is great just hope the traffic won't jam up the opening. Early morning traffic is so ugly around the bay area. I'm kinda looking for 10-12 late morning opening, if much later it would make a very small window for game to be running.