topic Re: Forums Maintenance & Infrastructure Upgrades Downtime in Operating System - OpenVMS

Forums Maintenance & Infrastructure Upgrades Downtime

Gary Cantwell — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 15:50:11 GMT

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ATTENTION SUPPORT FORUMS USERS: There will be a 4 to 6 hour downtime window this Friday night 6th PDT. It is for maintenance and infrastructure upgrades We apologise for any inconvenience, thank you
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Re: Forums Maintenance & Infrastructure Upgrades Downtime

Jan van den Ende — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 16:00:07 GMT

Which would be in GMT?

Proost.

Have one on me.

jpe

Re: Forums Maintenance & Infrastructure Upgrades Downtime

Andy Bustamante — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 16:09:39 GMT

PDT is + 7 = GMT/UTC. So 4 to 6 hours starting "sometime Friday/Saturday morning" give or take.

Andy

Re: Forums Maintenance & Infrastructure Upgrades Downtime

John Gillings — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 19:06:38 GMT

Gary,

Given the international population of readers, could you please think about being more specific when you specify a date and time. I assume "PDT" means US/Pacific time zone, but that's not necessarily obvious or even unambiguous to other readers. For some of us, your Friday is our Saturday.

Perhaps you could give a URL to a time zone converter, for example http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc

Given local DST rules and such, it might even be prudent to specify all dates and times in GMT?

I'm also wondering if there's some service on the web that would allow me to encode a date or time as a URL in my local time zone, so that someone else could click on it and have it automatically converted into their own time zone. I guess one such mechanism would be an Outlook meeting as a linked attachment (is there a more generic or open standard file format for this?)

FYI, although it's not relevant to your posting this time, please note that when specifying a date, North America is the only region that uses the non-sensical order mm/dd/yyyy, so it's better to use a completely unambiguous format like "6th October 2006"

Re: Forums Maintenance & Infrastructure Upgrades Downtime

Gary Cantwell — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 05:22:54 GMT

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