CoinPoker Hand History Timestamps: Which Time Zone Is It?

What the timestamp looks like

Every CoinPoker hand starts with a header like this:

CoinPoker Hand #130114200045: NLH (₮0.01/₮0.02) 2026/09/09 12:01:21 CEST

The time at the end is local server time with a zone label. In the exports we've worked with, that label is CEST, Central European Summer Time. The summary lines at the bottom of each hand repeat it, for example Game ended: 2026/09/09 12:45:44 CEST.

Hands from the PokerStars family look different. Their header carries a second timestamp in brackets, in Eastern Time, for example [2026/09/09 6:01:21 ET]. CoinPoker's header has no such stamp, which is one of the differences trackers trip over.

Why the time zone matters

Hand timestamps decide where a hand sits in your history. Anything that groups hands by time depends on them:

• Sessions. Trackers split sessions by gaps between hands. Consistent timestamps keep one evening as one session.
• Reports by day or hour. If the tracker reads the time as a different zone than the one it was written in, your best "hours" and "days" shift.
• Date filters. A range such as "last 7 days" can include or miss hands near midnight.
• Mixed databases. If you also play on a room that stamps hands in Eastern Time, comparing sessions across rooms gets confusing.

None of this changes your winnings or your stats like VPIP. It affects time-based views.

Summer time changes the label

CEST is the summer label. When Europe's clocks go back in autumn the zone becomes CET, so a file that spans that date can contain both labels. Keep that in mind when you read hand times around the change, and when you request a custom date range.

What you can do

• Know which zone you're looking at. CoinPoker times are European local time, not your own time zone and not Eastern Time.
• Don't mix zones inside one database without noticing. If time-based reports matter to you, keep CoinPoker in its own database.
• Let the conversion add the Eastern Time stamp. PokerHandsConverter can keep the original local time and add the Eastern Time stamp in brackets (the default), output a single Eastern Time stamp, or leave CoinPoker's time untouched. You pick per upload.

After you've sorted the time zone, the next step is getting the hands in. How to import CoinPoker hands into PokerTracker 4 walks through it.