Currently, events start in local time to the Player, and ends on UTC time. This gives an disproportionately lower amount of time to players in the West to enjoy events.
Example being the 2nd anniversary event. We still had 1 outbreak remaining and unlike the East who got the increased drops, the West and Europe loses out on the increased drops.
completely insane that I missed an outbreak and now I have to do one without double drops? hilarious, if you don’t want me playing the game just don’t release it globally.