Doing a second post to check the time stamp above - currently says 2 minutes ago. Grrrr... I wish they would just make an in-game auction option, but that is another discussion.
Yes it ends on the 23 Sep 12 (sorry about that) a few hours from now
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Doing a check on my Statics default settings, it is currently set on "UTC - Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London" time. So technically, 48 hours would be: Sunday at 8:02 PM UTC - Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London time or a little over 3 hours and 25 minutes from now (if I'm doing this correctly).