Within the GoG client, looking at my page for The Witcher 3, it says "Release in 6 hours." Meanwhile, on the GoG.com store page, it says "Play in 16 hours." Which one of these is actually right?

16 hours unfortunately

13h on the Client

Guessing the 1.01 patch manual download be available at the same time?

That is the plan.

on the client, mine says 7 hrs.

can u post a screenshot ?

According to what the mail warning me that I could preload the game said, it will be released at midnight, UK hour (not UTC, UK daylight saving time hour, that is UTC +1), which is 1 AM of May 19th in Central Europe (Poland, Italy and so on; always in DST, that is UTC +2); the clock in the GOG homepage agrees with that release time.

here you go

edit: well it's 6 hrs now.

mine is saying 12hours :( where u live ?

For me it's 2 hours now...

If only we were like Ciri, we could travel through time and be done with the waiting! D:

Must be. Not sure if that means some people get to play it early, or are the release times globally synchronized?

i'm from singapore +8GMT