Sort of off topic now on the counter, but I'm not sure why they'd screw with dates at all in the countdown timer. Just send across the number of seconds left until launch, a number that has no time zone dependency, and let the Javascript/Html5 widget convert it to days/minutes/seconds and count down.
Academic anyway, the event is close enough it's probably not worth them spending time to fix and deploy a new web page for something that trivial.