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Site outage scheduled for today 8/9/07 at 5:30 pm EST

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by beth blakely

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TR will be down for approximately 30 minutes today beginning at 5:30 pm EST.

Here's a short list of things you can do while we're down:

1. Clean out your keyboard
2. Clean your mouse
3. Create fun lists to post on TR
4. Think up bizarre complaints that will drive BB out of her mind
5. Try to out geek The Geek
6. Try to out gadget sMoRTy71

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by jdclyde

Drive home! :D

Nice to have a semi-schedules outage for a change, huh? :p

Off to work on option 4....

by jdclyde

Instead of getting the generic "not available" page, the tech boys should put up a page that says "Beth broke this"! B-)

by jdclyde

You just KNOW I will keep trying to access this site until it is locked to see how punctual they are..... B-)

by beth blakely

Thanks for a great laugh this morning. I literally guffawed. I could just picture you sitting there... *refresh**refresh**refresh*

by Member 25348569

By the time I've worked out what 5:30 EST actually is in [b]real[/b] time, it's too bloody late.

Can I point out (again) that we (Brits) invented time - the closest that the Spanish ever got was "Ma?ana" and the closest the French ever got was defining "lunchtime" - and that's why we ruled the world for a while and why the Universal Time is based on Greenwich which is about ten miles North East of me and the closest that the Prime Meridian (and the Eastern Hemisphere) gets is West Wickham, just over three miles away.

So, let's have the time of your next scheduled outage in GMT - OK, UTC if you can't get over your resentment for 1776 - please, so that I don't get confused. The unscheduled ones you can have whenever you like - you do that anyway.

Thank you.

Neil :D

by rob mekel

did find a nice site on wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_zone
is more general, the specific one [i]nice with time schedule[/i]:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Time_Zone

to make it more complicated:

Eastern Standard Time - three separate time zones use this name:
the Australian time zone at UTC+10
the Brazilian Eastern time zone at UTC-3
the North American time zone at UTC-5

European Summer Time - the daylight-saving time used in Europe.
:^0

Well where is the yuk or is it started by Beth today ... that is a nice one for a change :D ;)

Rob

[i]edited for lay-out[/i]

by Member 25348569

I was pretty sure that they were using the North American time zone and they had just assumed that the rest of the world would understand which one they meant!

:D

by jdclyde

allows me to set a few time zones. GB is one of the places set, so it lets me know if I need to pester one of "you people" over there, I have to do it before lunch! B-)

by beth blakely

I need to post the time differently. I just wanted to get the notification up there quickly.

I swear, next time I'll try to put GMT. :-)

by Member 25348569

and I'll do the calculation from UTC to GMT myself. I believe it involves me walking West for about twenty yards.

Anyway, I don't want people from other time zones claiming favouritism!

:D

by maecuff

works just fine for me. I don't have to calculate anything. I just have to look at my watch. :)

by tig2

Any mayhem? People screaming? Trick ponies?

Seems awful quiet around here. Too quiet!

Tell everyone at TR to beware. I have counted the ribbons. There are none in the PTB.

Get with the game!

Hugs to you all for getting through yet another TR "crisis". Thanks for the warning!

by beth blakely

The PTB are aware of your upcoming adventure and we've been talking about it in the office. We're not flying our pink ribbons yet but we're behind you 110 percent. Stay tuned.

There was no mayhem this time. Since it was planned, it was just like a fire drill. In fact, since it happened at 5:30, most people actually WERE walking out the door!

by hal 9000

They really think that the world revolve around them don't they. :(

Actually there is an entire world out there that doesn't even think of the Yanks unless one is pestering them and most of us live in that world. :D

Col

by rob mekel

but more his anger he can't have england to drive the kiwi's home ... so as everybody else he blames it on the yanks ... :^0 :^0

;)
Rob

[i]but it is, it realy is, honestly it is ...
No need for prove it surely is, isn't it? [/i]

by tig2

Just because I am walking 20 miles tomorrow doesn't mean you have to. You can put away the necktie.

20 miles tomorrow followed by 8 on Sunday. Next week is easy- 10 and 8. After that, 20, 20, 20.

Hmm. Have to check my socks...

Edit. Missed one...

by av .

I missed the outage (Damn!), but I clicked on one of the related threads below this thread -
Warning - Saturday TR outage planned

Instead of a new thread I got "You have reached a restricted page, click here to continue."

There was other information on the page, but it wasn't a thread.

What is that?

AV

by w2ktechman

as the page goes to a legacy server.
A new forums search for "saturday tr outage" (in the title) finds nothing.

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