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  Start time: June 15, 2023 | 9:00pm
  End time: June 15, 2023 | 10:00pm

  We are performing a software upgrade
  on network equipment that will cause
  some traffic to be dropped for about
  1 minute, during the device restart.

I wonder which time zone. No idea where they are in the USA.

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It tells me:

    Start time: June 15, 2023 | 11:00pm
    End time: June 16, 2023 | 12:00am

So I guess it's in our time zone? I'm in GMT+2.

Yep. I mean, it's nice that we don't have to do the timezone math, but they still should include the timezone to avoid confusion.

Automatic time zone translation is moronic if you don’t indicate that automatic translation has happened before displaying it to the user.

Also, assuming that the time zone set on the client machine is the same that the reader expects is usually true, but not always.

There’s a reason most technical or “professional” communication of time zones happens in UTC, and the conversion is left up to the reader.

This is one of those UI conventions that would be good, but is actually unusable and ruined because there's too much other bad UIs that don't even think about time zones.

I wish people would just also always publish GMT - timezones are the freaking worst.

> Planned maintenance scheduled for Thursday, June 15, 2023 at 21:00 UTC

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/maintenance+...

They commented on that and said:

> The downtime we just experienced wasn't related to this maintenance. We'll be posting the details shortly.

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