Once you can read a Golden Ball round ID, the whole schedule becomes transparent: the ID alone tells you the date and the exact three-minute window in which a round ran. This guide decodes the format and the clock behind it.
Decoding GB-YYYYMMDD-NNN
A live round ID has three parts. GBT/GBS is the game prefix — it names which Golden Ball variant published the round. YYYYMMDD is the UTC calendar date of the round. NNN is the slot number within that date, from 001 to 480 — because a day contains exactly 480 three-minute slots. For example, an ID ending in 001 ran in the first slot after UTC midnight, and one ending in 241 ran almost exactly at UTC noon.
- Slot 001 starts at 00:00:00 UTC.
- Each slot lasts exactly three minutes; slot NNN starts at (NNN−1) × 3 minutes after midnight.
- Slot 480 ends at 24:00:00 UTC, and the next day restarts at 001.
UTC is authoritative
The schedule runs on the game server’s UTC clock, not on your local time zone. That is why draw times on this site are displayed with an explicit UTC marker: a round labelled 15:45 UTC ran at the same world moment for every viewer, whatever their local clock showed.
The Next Draw countdown
The Next Draw panel shows the ID of the upcoming round and a countdown to its draw moment. Both values come from the schedule authority in the result snapshot — the page never computes its own round numbers. When the countdown reaches zero, the round draws, finalizes shortly after, and appears at the top of the results table.