RIP Me and everyone in To

Patience is a virtue. No reason to try it until you can confirm online that the new breakthrough is available.

1pm PDT. Transform this to your local time.
But even knowing that, always confirm first that the event/new reward is live.

Weren't you off by a full day? Raikou is supposed to appear on August 1 at 1:00 p.m. PDT. But Pacific Daylight Time is seven hours behind GMT, while e.g. Japanese time is nine hours before GMT. By the time you wrote your posting here it was about 1:30 p.m. in Tokyo - but only 2:30 p.m. on July, 31st at the West Coast.

Ah ha ha ha ha!

I can't get enough of these! "I completed my research before the boss change and now I got the boss from last month!"

As others have stated above. You need to pay attention to what you're doing. Pat attention to what Niantic posts (they literally tell you when it changes to the exact time).

Your post here suggests you and "everyone else at a raid" just decided to complete their research tasks without paying attention to the time. Or flat-out not even being aware of it.

The good news? I guess you won't make the same mistake this month.

Rest in Peace to the melodrama!

Seriously, the field research has been around since april and has changed Pokemon four times now, and as far as I know the time of change has been the same every time.
And we are told the exact time of change every time as well.

So if people still get it wrong, well then....fuck 'em.