Day 21: OpenAI resets Codex usage again, full rollout unconfirmed

The Day 21 announcement follows Day 20, when Sottiaux also chose a reset and later posted "It is all propagated" as an official completion report for that day. Day 21's short post carried no such completion message, and it also gave no fixed propagation deadline; readers should not carry over the times announced on Days 17, 18, or 20. PC Watch reported that its writer's own allowance recovered around 15:00 JST on Oct 26, about an hour after the announcement, and an unofficial tracker also logged its operator's allowance recovering — but these are individual observations, not an audit of every account.

OpenAI's own help documentation draws a distinction: an automatic "global" reset applies directly to accounts and allowances selected for each campaign, so "global" does not mean every ChatGPT model, image generation, voice, or API metered billing recovers at once. It also notes that a reset sets the targeted allowance back to its cap rather than stacking, so a user who was already at 100% does not reach 200%, and that the next natural refresh time for affected weekly allowances may shift.

The timing itself straddles two dates because the U.S. West Coast was still on PDT (UTC−7) on Oct 25: the post recorded at 05:21 UTC on Oct 26 is 22:21 PDT on Oct 25 but 14:21 JST on Oct 26, which is why Day 21 is described as Oct 25 in U.S. terms and Oct 26 in Japan. The remaining seven days are best framed cautiously — Sottiaux wrote only that he wonders what will happen, so treating major new features or a wave of further resets as certain would be premature.