Valve Time

Valve Time	Actual Time	Item
"Soon" (1998), way before 2005	October 10, 2007	Release of Team Fortress 2
September 2003	November 16, 2004	Release of Half-Life 2
June 1, 2006	October 10, 2007	Release of Half-Life 2: Episode 2
Christmas of 2007	Coincident with the  Rapture	Release of Half-Life 2: Episode 3
Four days	Two months and six days	Availability of the Earbuds in TF2
Every 3 months	Every few years	Half-Life 2 Episodes
Coming tomorrow at 11 AM	Coming tomorrow at 2 PM	Team Fortress 2 Update
Today	Tonight at 11:49 PM, Pacific time	Time TF2 beta went live
Tomorrow	Later this week
This week	Next week
Q1	The third week of Q2
(This year's) holiday season	Fall of next year
Coming "Soon"	Coming in over two months	Team Fortress 2, Engineer Update.
Beginning in (next month)...	Beginning in the month after the stated one
At 4PM pdt	At 1:30 pdt	(L4D2 50% off sale)
Shortly	In six months
We're finishing this feature up now	We've just finished the concept and we'll start working on it in the coming weeks (see below)	Steam Friends
In the coming weeks	In large updates starting in five months and continuing over the next two and a half years	TF2 Class Achievements
"within the month" (Feb 1st)	"just after" April 15th	TF2 Gold Rush Update first delay
"just after" April 15th		TF2 Gold Rush Update first delay
"the week of April 20th"	April 29th	TF2 Gold Rush Update first delay
January or maybe even March	May 23	Day of Defeat Source Steamworks beta
After the holiday weekend / After Memorial Day	Next week
Until the problem is fixed with an SDK update	For the engine after the engine after this (where everything but our tools has changed)
Early 2008: Late summer, 2008: Early November, 2008	November 18, 2008	Release of Left 4 Dead
October 2nd	October 3rd
Monday	Monday-ish	Arena Mode announcement date on http://steamgames.com/tf2/heavy/ before going live late Monday night PST
Within about an hour	5 hours later
Couple of hours	7 hours later
Later this week	In 3 weeks
When we started working on TF2	22 years ago (putting the date 11 years before the initial release of Team Fortress)
October 27, 1 PM, PST (8 PM, UTC)	October 27, 11 PM PST (October 28, 6 AM, UTC)	(Left 4 Dead 2 early access demo first delay)
October 27, 11 PM, PST (October 28, 6 AM, UTC)	October 28, 1 PM, PST (8 PM, UTC)	(Left 4 Dead 2 early access demo second delay)
October 28, 1 PM, PST (8 PM, UTC)	October 28, 2 PM, PST (9 PM, UTC)	(Left 4 Dead 2 early access demo third delay)
October 28, 2 PM, PST (9 PM, UTC)	October 28, 3 PM, PST (10 PM, UTC)	(Left 4 Dead 2 early access demo fourth delay)
October 28, 3 PM, PST (10 PM, UTC)	October 28, 5:08 PM, PST (October 29, 0:08 AM, UTC)	(Left 4 Dead 2 early access demo fifth delay)
...any minute now	5 days later	Nov 9, 2009 Left 4 Dead update
Midnight	1AM
Late March	Late April	Release of The Passing for L4D2
100	119
Available for pre-order.	Activated for play, months after the pre-order date.
In April	12th	Steam for Mac
Each Wednesday for the next few weeks	Each Wednesday for three weeks, then when we feel like it	Release of new Mac games
This coming holiday season! 2010	Next coming year. February 9th, 2011	Portal 2 release date
June 14, during E3, at the Regal Theater	June 15, during Sony's E3 conference
Six months from now	Somewhere between 16 Months from now and Eventually
July 12th	July 15th	TF2 Polycount Pack Contest winner selection
Later this Spring	Fall	Release of L4D on Mac
In one hour	In two hours and 15 minutes	The release of Alien Swarm

Reverse Valve Time

Valve Time	Actual Time	Item
In a few days	Within 24 hours	December 11, 2008 TF2 update
We're wrapping things up...	2 Weeks	Pyro update
November 18th	12:01 EST November 18th
Sure, I'll make this happen.	15 minutes later
Very soon	One week later
Tomorrow	Tomorrow
Next Monday	On Monday
This week	The next day
"before the end of the summer"	August 20th	New Left 4 Dead DLC Announcement

See Also

• Valve Time Tracker