Time for booking DVC resort issues

I’ve always been able to book by watching the world clock (or whatever it is on my Mac), and clicking the button immediately after the clock shows 8:00. Now that timing doesn't work! And I need to start walking two BoardWalk standard studios. Anyone else having a timing problem? Suggestions?

I don't quite go to the extremes that some of you seem to, but I recently changed our reservation at the 7 month mark, and was able to book about 2 minutes before my PC said 8 am.

I was just walking a 7 month booking at Disneyland.  Wow, what a tough time.  Up at 4:50 for several days getting shut out each time.  I starting hitting the continue button shortly after my clock hit 4:59 and just kept re-searching as quickly as I could until I either got it, or it was gone.  It worked on the second day.  I estimate it was allowing reservations 2-3 seconds early.

Time.gov shows you how far off your clock is when you load the site - scroll down and it says what your clock is in a black box. The amount my clocks are off can vary up to a half a second or less. I can tell you there is no way you can book prior to 8am on the dot though with DVC. Definitely not a minute or two. Only way you can do that is if you're actually inside your window.

After this post, we ran some tests and figured out when one can search. Then I double checked this past month (finalized it all just a week ago) and they definitely are still very much set up with time.gov. 1/10th second too early and you have to refresh. sometimes even a second or two late and you're shut out.

I've sweat some of my booking for DVC thanks to my guys requesting it. Those matter more to me than other times. Not as hard as booking some of our city stuff, but definitely harder than some other things I've booked.

Plus or minus? These are also seconds, not minutes shown. At least mine right now says +0.083s so I am a hair ahead. Since even my internet providers vary in actual time, I just have it open in a separate or split screen and watch their site, not my own clocks.

Yep! You can also run some tests to clock reaction time too. I tend to get the half second pulses in my head (like 120 bpm) and hit immediately when it's going to be 8:00am (or 7am for VQs) but that's a crazy level and takes practice. I do a lot with music and learned 120bpm and still have that good in my head so I'm more confident with my method. For most I'd just say for rooms click when you see it move over to 8am and you should be fine, but don't be slow on the selection page.