Board Thread:Support Requests - Designing Your Wiki/@comment-4975807-20130106200038/@comment-3030984-20130106204524

Yes, that is the whole point of adding EST to the end. Else, the countdown defaults to the local time of the user, which is why you are having the current problems.

And yes, it should go after 8:00 PM, though preferably, you should use 24 hour time and get rid of the PM.