most of the world is still in 24th (example it's 9pm Sunday 24th for me and in America it's middle of the day/early afternoon). And if Steam is EU or even NA oriented company then it will take from 20h to 36~40hours to start their work and "approve" the game or just dev will come out with another excuse and announce new delay (like early December)
...
sigh
business days people, meaning weekdays, not weekends, so if everything goes well and steam doesn't reject anything, release should be sometime between monday and wednesday...
if all goes well anyway...
something that has to be pointed out to those that have... "concerns" regarding the dev : claiming that the game is going through steams process would be the worst possible way of trying to delay a release at this point, due to the implication that the game is actually complete, and as we know from the demo/earlier versions, there isn't any content that would realistically make steam go "woah hold up, there's a issue here with xyz character" (the most common reason for steam to reject a game would be if a character is too young looking), also dev would only lose goodwill with people waiting to buy the game on steam (like myself) at this point with any delays
my 2 cents (or pence if british like myself)