Agreed that the down time is getting silly for EU, I work odd shifts and the main time I get to play is 9am GMT - 1300 GMT and it is nearly every week these days that at least twice a week we have maintenance or patches coming in at this time, either a separate down time would be good or flip downtimes so this week EU are mostly effected and next week U.S. is.
A bit of fairness would be nice.