So I totally tried to yolo it on go 2 knowing both my siblings got the answer in 3 (minor spoiler: reckoned they'd go silly on go 2 leading to silky)
EDIT: Well my logic was based on flawed premises... today's starting word was supposed to be guide!! Whoops. Fortunately it gave the same amount of info so no real benefit or detriment.
Yeah, not sure why they offset them at midnight of the timezone, they should just use UTC. When I posted that was the puzzle the link in this post opened, guess I will have to look at the puzzle number. Here is 890.