German Consulates around the world add new appointments every weekday at midnight in Germany. For example, that is 3pm in California — or rather, it was at 3pm in California. Europe moves the clocks by an hour for Daylight Savings Time on October 26th, which happened a few hours ago at the time of this writing.
The US moves its clocks one week from now, on November 2. So for this one week, midnight in Germany is 4pm in California. This might be a good week for finding an appointment, slightly fewer people will likely be polling as some will be checking at the wrong time.
