Countdown discrepancy?

This is the most trivial of questions:

Cruise Critic and Princess show different "days before departure"countdowns. For example, today (6-8), CC shows 43 days to go while Princess shows 44 days. I've done the guzintas, and Princess is correct; it's 44.

Why is CC wrong? Does the software just presume that we'll fly out the day before (we will, making CC technically correct as to the start of our trip)? If we were leaving out of Long Beach, CA, we wouldn't travel the day before, it's only 50 miles away.

Inquiring minds want to know (toldja it was a trivial question!).

My guess is that one counts down to midnight prior to the cruise, the other midnight the day of the cruise.

I don't think so. Can't speak to Princess, it's not as granular as Cruise Critic (only days, vs. CC's days, hour, minutes, and, yes, seconds), but CC is counting down to 4:00 PDT, exactly two days before the scheduled sail-away date and time.

I guess I should log back into Princess after 4:00, and see if it counts down a day

Mihalso be impacted y what Timezone each is based in.

Just a thought.

CC Countdown clock counts down to midnight (beginning of day) GMT. It is currently 6:22pm in Tennessee (CDT) the countdown to my September cruise shows 95 days 0 hrs 38 min

Aha! It's only a coincidence that my countdown coincides to the hour with the scheduled ship's departure! PDT is GMT -8, so 0000 GMT = 4:00 PM PDT (sailing time).