iPad Pre-Orders Start 5.30AM PST on Friday, Says Apple PR [Updated]

Update 2: Apple is sending out emails confirming the 5.30 AM PST/8.30 AM EST time, according to TidBits and others. Emails were sent to customers who signed up for pre-order info (I signed up but didn’t get the message for some reason).

Update: Reader Bob Penn says the staff at his local Apple store insists that pre-orders begin at midnight. I for one will be staying up until the witching hour just to see.

Pre-oders for the iPad start at 5.30 AM PST on Friday March 12, Apple PR told TUAW. That’s 8.30 AM for East Coasters.

Better set your alarm clocks.

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Bob Penn
Just came from the Pasadena Apple Store. Every salesperson there told me that the pre orders start at midnight this evening. When I showed them the many blogs which say tomorrow at 5:30 am Pacific, they insist that this isn’t what they were told. But they didn’t know what time zone midnight referred to. They guessed the browser would broadcast the timezone. Doesn’t make sense to me. They were clearly told this, but it may not be correct.