| Valve Time | Actual Time |
| Coming tomorrow at 11 AM | Coming tomorrow at 2 PM |
| Today | Tonight at 11:49 PM, Pacific time (This was the actual time the TF2 Public Beta went live.) |
| Tomorrow | Later this week |
| This week | Next week |
| This year 1 2 | Next year 1 2 |
| Q1 | The third week of Q2 |
| (This year's) holiday season | Fall of next year |
| Beginning in (next month)... | Beginning in the month after the stated one |
| 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) |
| In the coming weeks | In large updates starting in five months and continuing over the next two years |
| "within the month" (Feb 1st): "just after" April 15th: "the week of April 20th" | April 29th |
| January or maybe even March | May 23 |
| After the holiday weekend / After Memorial Day | Next week |
| Christmas of 2007 | Coincident with the Rapture |
| 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 |
| October 2nd | October 3rd |
| Monday | Monday-ish (Monday depending on your time zone) (This was what Monday's announcement date changed to on http://steamgames.com/tf2/heavy/ within an hour before it went live.) |
| 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 |
| Midnight | 1AM |
