10pm downtime? Really?

Why the sudden change to 10pm as a downtime? You've already alienated the West Coast, New Zealand and Australia in the past, by shutting down at Midnight, now, you gotta screw over the West even more, and go at 10pm?

The downtime is 8 hours, same as every other downtime. Why the early shutdown? Why move it more into primetime?

Oh, and @StephenReid....3 days notice? Looks like about a 1 day notice to me, but then again, they didn't teach them new fangled math-e-ma-matics at my grade school, high school or college.

We were told we'd have 3 days notice of 1.2. Apparently, that was a lie.

Also, I've noticed that speakers of British English (I'm including South Africans and Austro-New Zealanders) spell it "whinging" while American English spells it "whining". Is that observation correct? Where does this come from? Are they pronounced the same? From my American viewpoint, based on spelling alone, I would pronounce whinging like hinging (win-jing) and whining like dining (wine-ing).

We just have a larger variety of moaning words. To whinge and to whine. Pronounced like singe and well, wine (we do like a silent H <or aitch>).

Proof or never happened. And don't give me that Stephen Reid tweet cause first it's not official and second he said "As a general rule of thumb we often give at least three days' notice. Generally..." Note the "GENERALLY" part in there. He never said that they'll do that for 1.2. So unless you have a DevTracker post, yellow on blue, you're talking bullcrap.

Go find something else to do. Like...gee i don't know...SLEEPING??? It's patch 1.2 not a weekly patch, i'd understand if it was (no not really), but it's patch 1.2 so suck it up, grow some ballz and get a live.

We just have a larger variety of moaning words. To whinge and to whine. Pronounced like singe and well, wine (we do like a silent H <or aitch>).

We say whinge as in crying too much about something, I believe the US whine is the same thing.

Also for reference, a day isn't always 24 hours. It changes on daylight savings for a start. Then there are business days, those vary dramatically and don't include weekends.

Some might say this is too pedantic.

For those moaning that it wasn't three days notice. You are the reason that the devs are very reticent about mentioning even the slightest information. They don't want to let us know the slightest tid-bit until it's set in stone because if there is the tiniest irrelevant change there is the end of the world uproar.

Sickening really.

Also for reference, a day isn't always 24 hours. It changes on daylight savings for a start. Then there are business days, those vary dramatically and don't include weekends.
In fact technically there aren't even 365 days a year. There are 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds. A calendar day isn't quite the same as a solar day. This is why we have leap years.

On that note look at months, even though you pay by the month there aren't a set number of days or hours in them. Sometimes it's 31, sometimes it's 30 sometimes it's 28. Then with the aforementioned leap years it's 29. Should we get all of our collective knickers in a bunch because we pay less for a leap year February than a normal February?

Some might say this is too pedantic. That is in fact correct. Because IT REALLY DOESN'T MATTER! YOU MOANING <expletive deleted>.

Besides I'm going on the timing scale created in my head. I had 4,236 Verubian days notice before the patch so na na na boo boo.