You can play Sea of Thieves right now if you switch regions (but Microsoft won’t be happy)

Update, March 19: People around the world are playing Sea of Thieves right now, and you can too - if you’re up to violate Microsoft’s terms of service.

Sea of Thieves launches at midnight in every supported region worldwide, so people on the eastern side of the international date line are already playing it. If that’s an affront too great for you to bear, you can bypass the region restriction to start playing early, but it seems neither Rare or Microsoft are going to be especially happy about it.

Here are details on the Sea of Thieves endgame.

You can change settings region settings on Windows 10 (and Xbox One, for that matter) to allow early access to the game if it’s not midnight for you just yet. All you have to do is load up the “Region & language” screen (under “Time & language” in the control panel), and switch your country to one that has access to Sea of Thieves. New Zealand and Australia are safe picks.

from
https://www.pcgamesn.com/sea-of-thieves/sea-of-thieves-release-times