Article on Deltanet says CS is now going to start covering open time (for all categories) at 2:00 PM, two days out. Its been awhile since I bid reserve, but am going back to it, and I think this is good news? Two reasons. Correct me if I am wrong on either of these, and of course there is the caveat that CS can change their mind about this whenever they want.
1) If coming off a normal x-day, if they aren't assigning until 2:00 PM it means you won't get tagged for a 10:00 AM report on your day one, and they will have to wait until you actually go on LC to give you your 18 hours.
2) Back when they assigned SC two days out, if I knew I might get tagged for an undesirable trip, I could YS a SC for the night before to make myself illegal for the trip. I lost that ability when they started assigning SC 1 day out instead of two, but now with trip coverage happening at 2:00, I think I can start doing that again?