Watching Lunar Eclipse

Some friends told me that there will be a lunar eclipse today, around 6 PM. So at 6 PM, i went outside of my house and look around, but since there was a high building next to my house, i couldn't see anything. So i went to the back of my house and from some place higher, i could see the lunar eclipse quite clearly. I was wondering why does people don't write about it at 7 PM, but then when i looked up again in Planet Terasi, some people have written about it and probably more to go.