Winter sales end 2nd jan or 3rd?

Do you really have to be a douche about this? Here's a few reasons why people wouldn't know about this thing for a start:

• People usually have a wishlist, and look at the prices there. They rarely visit all the game pages from there, because they operate on common sense, and the timers aren't on wishlists.
• This is literally the first time they did something like this. I remember buying everything in the last 8 hours of the '13 summer sale, and not spending on them until I could be sure they would not go lower on a daily deal. Again, common sense, if you look forward to save some money and not spend blindly.
• Sales last through to the 2nd of January, right. It's still the 2nd of January here, and will be for the next 3 hours from posting this. But that's beside the point, because apparently the encore sales are on the 2nd of Jan. too, "Valve time", so at the very best the dates for the sale were promoted in an easily misunderstandable way. There was no mention of an encore sale, so people expected regulars to stay on, and that didn't happen.
• Even if someone went to see the timer on each page, they would probably not notice that it was supposed to end when it did. Not until they looked for that specific thing. With the fixed timeframe that can't have any exact dates rendered to it thanks to time zones, people would write it down as "oh, it's the 2nd of January there, and not in my timezone", wherever there is.
• Since this is the first time they do it, it should hardly NOT come as a surprise. You just want people to look more stupid than you. Hope you succeed!
• My God, why am I even explaining this.

Go play some Postal or Carmageddon games, that should help you chill a bit.

I knew that the Autumn sale didn't do this, I remembered waiting till the last day to clean up my wishlist. I just researched to make sure I wasn't crazy. There was no encore and all sales lasted till the end of the last day. Sorry, I don't remember what happened in previous sales as it's been wayyy to long. So yeah, again I trusted the GIANT banner as opposed to the little timers (knowing that Steam makes these little mistakes quite often).