Downtime on Fri, Oct 16?

SKULLANDCROSSBONES65 · October 16, 2009, 05:05 AM

G'day. Can somebody help me out with the time?

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Maintenance downtime on Fri, Oct 16

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TFL will be offline for maintenance at roughly 1pm-2pm Eastern, 10am-11pm pacific on Friday, in order to add more memory to the server.

I set my TFL clock at 'GMT+10' hours. I think Australia is about 16 hours ahead of the USA.

It also looks like 'Eastern' only needs 1 hour, but 'Pacific' must be a lot slower as they need 13 hours.

**Bud Helms** · October 16, 2009, 07:53 AM

LMBO.

Looks like a typo!

**Mal H** · October 16, 2009, 10:26 AM

Yes, the "10am-11pm" was a typo, and it's been corrected.

However, since the first one (the Eastern time) is the one out of synch with your Aussie clock, I don't have a real answer for you, other than "it's wrong".

If the maintenance will start at 1 PM Eastern Daylight Time today (Oct. 16th) in the US, then that will be 8 PM Eastern Summer Time in Australia on Oct. 15th. (Summer Time started a few weeks ago and is GMT +11 in QLD.)

-I think-

Time math is one of the more difficult concepts, in my opinion.

**tyme** · October 16, 2009, 12:06 PM

yeah I originally had it 11am-12pm pacific, and I pushed it earlier by an hour and forgot to change the am/pm

next time I'm using 24hr time. Particularly with this crowd, nobody should have a problem with it.

Starts in about 1hr... 1700 UTC / Zulu

Incidentally, you can fix the timezone thing: In usercp, under "edit options", set your timezone to what it is WITHOUT daylight saving time. Then underneath that, pick the option "automatically detect DST settings". I haven't ever looked at how vbulletin does that, but I think it uses javascript to check the local time and use that.

SKULLANDCROSSBONES65 · October 16, 2009, 05:44 PM

G'day.
I thought it was just a typo. I actually read it about 3 or 4 times before I saw it. I thought it was amusing. ( I'm good at it myself. )

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If the maintenance will start at 1 PM Eastern Daylight Time today (Oct. 16th) in the US, then that will be 8 PM Eastern Summer Time in Australia on Oct. 15th. (Summer Time started a few weeks ago and is GMT +11 in QLD.)

-I think-

Time math is one of the more difficult concepts, in my opinion.

No daylight savings time in Queensland, just the southern states.

Time math can get confusing. Australia is ahead of the USA, you put us behind. (The maintenance shut should of happened here on Saturday the 17th, 3 am)

Enjoy your day.

**Mal H** · October 16, 2009, 05:58 PM

Oops!

See? I told you time math was difficult - especially for me!

Actually, I knew you were ahead of us, but I thought that meant events occurred at an earlier time/date there than here. I was thinking backwards - not an unusual occurrence.

SKULLANDCROSSBONES65 · October 19, 2009, 08:27 AM

G'day. Thank you for your detailed updated post.

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Originally Posted by tyme

Maintenance downtime on Mon, Oct 19

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TFL will be offline for maintenance on Monday at roughly 12pm (noon) to 1pm CDT (central U.S. daylight time), in order to add more memory to the server. Barring alien abductions or other strange phenomena, the upgrade should take less than an hour.

1300-1400 (1pm-2pm) EDT atlantic coast U.S. time
1000-1100 (10am-11am) PDT pacific coast U.S. time
0400-0500 (4am-5am Tuesday) AEDT Australian eastern daylight time (NSW)
2000-2100 (8pm-9pm) Baghdad time
0100-0200 (1am-2am Tuesday) in China (also Taiwan and Hong Kong)
2230-2330 (10:30pm-11:30pm) in India

1700-1800 GMT/UTC/Zulu

The scheduled time hasn't changed, I just added a bunch more timezones.

This was originally planned for Friday, but plans never go according to plan. I couldn't get ahold of anyone to confirm that I could get into the colo.

I could not help but LMBO when I saw all of the diferent time zones listed. Still needed to adjust for my time zone.

I can do the math myself. 1700 + 1000 - 2400 = 0300. This means I should be asssleep while it all happens.

**Mal H** · October 19, 2009, 10:53 AM

You're asleep in the middle of the day??

October 16, 2009, 07:53 AM	#2
Bud Helms Staff Join Date: December 31, 1999 Location: Middle Georgia Posts: 12,907	LMBO. Looks like a typo! __________________ "The irony of the Information Age is that it has given new respectability to uninformed opinion." - John Lawton, speaking to the American Association of Broadcast Journalists in 1995

October 16, 2009, 12:06 PM	#4
tyme Staff Join Date: October 13, 2001 Location: Novalis 978-0553586251 Posts: 2,999	yeah I originally had it 11am-12pm pacific, and I pushed it earlier by an hour and forgot to change the am/pm next time I'm using 24hr time. Particularly with this crowd, nobody should have a problem with it. Starts in about 1hr... 1700 UTC / Zulu Incidentally, you can fix the timezone thing: In usercp, under "edit options", set your timezone to what it is WITHOUT daylight saving time. Then underneath that, pick the option "automatically detect DST settings". I haven't ever looked at how vbulletin does that, but I think it uses javascript to check the local time and use that. __________________ Proud reseller of little geisha dolls with big heads that wobble. "Want to keep guns out of the hands of felons? Make fewer felons in the first place." --Vanya

October 16, 2009, 10:26 AM	#3
Mal H Staff Join Date: March 20, 1999 Location: Somewhere in the woods of Northern VA Posts: 14,083	Yes, the "10am-11pm" was a typo, and it's been corrected. However, since the first one (the Eastern time) is the one out of synch with your Aussie clock, I don't have a real answer for you, other than "it's wrong". If the maintenance will start at 1 PM Eastern Daylight Time today (Oct. 16th) in the US, then that will be 8 PM Eastern Summer Time in Australia on Oct. 15th. (Summer Time started a few weeks ago and is GMT +11 in QLD.) -I think- Time math is one of the more difficult concepts, in my opinion.

October 16, 2009, 05:58 PM	#6
Mal H Staff Join Date: March 20, 1999 Location: Somewhere in the woods of Northern VA Posts: 14,083	Oops! See? I told you time math was difficult - especially for me! Actually, I knew you were ahead of us, but I thought that meant events occurred at an earlier time/date there than here. I was thinking backwards - not an unusual occurrence.

October 19, 2009, 10:53 AM	#8
Mal H Staff Join Date: March 20, 1999 Location: Somewhere in the woods of Northern VA Posts: 14,083	You're asleep in the middle of the day??