Times in GMT for maintenance please?

Iwillgo

Hi everyone I'm newly returned to ESO and loving Morrowind btw!

I gather from Google that the maintenance started at 8 am... Do any of you veterans have a guess at what time they will finish.. Reason being I'm on the verge of going out (or waiting to play)...

An opinion would be gratefully appreciated, thanks

Art

Voxicity

I would guess another hour or two but your guess is as good as mine

Shanjijri

GMT: 9 A.M.
GMT+1 (my country): 10 A.M.

It started for two hours now.

AzraelKrieg

Unknown. But usually between 3-6 hours depending on the nature of what needs to be done. Being that this is the first incremental patch after an update, it will be on the further end of the spectrum

Iwillgo

Awesome, thanks folks, I'll go out and enjoy the sun then for a bit!

Appreciated.

Art

Taylor_MB

It drives me nuts they don't use GMT.

It's an international game that doesn't use a system specifically designed to communicate consistent times over different locations.

zaria

is not UTC the same as GMT in practice.

Mysterieus

Normally the ETA on Mondays (Normal Maintance day) is 4 hours.

Now, they moved the maintance from monday towards tuesday. This could also mean it is more then 4 hour.
But you're guess is as good as mine. We both don't know.

But don't look sad if it is 10 hours. We have seen it before, and even recently (2 week ago)
But the positive side is, Morrowind maintance took less then 5 hours (Whoop Whoop!)

AzraelKrieg

zaria wrote: »

is not UTC the same as GMT in practice.

UTC replaces GMT as the accepted standard

Coilbox

ESO Toolkit app for android has added a feature that check servers every 2 min and you can have a notification on your phone when servers are back up.

Very handy!

Sjizzle

AzraelKrieg wrote: »

zaria wrote: »

is not UTC the same as GMT in practice.

UTC replaces GMT as the accepted standard

UTC is used in Navigation !

SilverWF

zaria wrote: »

is not UTC the same as GMT in practice.

Yes, it's the same. UTC - just a new name for GMT.

BFT88

Valarian_Eldergleam wrote: »

Normally the ETA on Mondays (Normal Maintance day) is 4 hours.

Now, they moved the maintance from monday towards tuesday. This could also mean it is more then 4 hour.
But you're guess is as good as mine. We both don't know.

But don't look sad if it is 10 hours. We have seen it before, and even recently (2 week ago)
But the positive side is, Morrowind maintance took less then 5 hours (Whoop Whoop!)

Maintenance got moved this week because it was a national holiday in the US on Monday, Memorial Day, which is a holiday we use to recognize our fallen soldiers who died serving the US.

Herbbie

Hey Art

Chomping at the bit there

see you in game soon, hopefully!

Mirelurk

They did say no maintenance this week ... right up until the time they did maintenance.

Take from that what you will.

AzraelKrieg

Mirelurk wrote: »

They did say no maintenance this week ... right up until the time they did maintenance.

Take from that what you will.

Maintenance was always scheduled for this week. They even mentioned it on ESO Live. There is always a maintenance in the weeks following a new update.

Mirelurk

Hmm, if so they maybe should have told the forum people ... the headline was "no maintenance this week"

Mysterieus

BFT88 wrote: »

Valarian_Eldergleam wrote: »

Normally the ETA on Mondays (Normal Maintance day) is 4 hours.

Now, they moved the maintance from monday towards tuesday. This could also mean it is more then 4 hour.
But you're guess is as good as mine. We both don't know.

But don't look sad if it is 10 hours. We have seen it before, and even recently (2 week ago)
But the positive side is, Morrowind maintance took less then 5 hours (Whoop Whoop!)

Maintenance got moved this week because it was a national holiday in the US on Monday, Memorial Day, which is a holiday we use to recognize our fallen soldiers who died serving the US.

Sorry, didn't mean to be offensive
Not familiar with US holidays

AzraelKrieg

Mirelurk wrote: »

Hmm, if so they maybe should have told the forum people ... the headline was "no maintenance this week"

The banner always goes up Sunday morning.

Troneon

NO ETA?

Juli'St

Troneon wrote: »

NO ETA?

Strange, no ETA? this is new in ESO

Zaldan

the way maintenance is going lately come back tomorrow

Paulington

They give the times in UTC, which is exactly the same as GMT, the difference is that GMT is a time zone whereas UTC is a time standard.

ZOS list times in UTC because everyone knows what their UTC plus or minus is, like the UK is currently UTC+1 and central Europe is UTC+2, rather than listing all time zones listing the universal co-ordinated time makes the most sense for everyone.

Qyrk

Taylor_MB wrote: »

It drives me nuts they don't use GMT.

It's an international game that doesn't use a system specifically designed to communicate consistent times over different locations.

@Taylor_MB It looks like you're not well informed. GMT can be used with UTC (which is what ZOS is using). But the reason why they use UTC is because some GMT countries switch to different time zones in their daylight savings time, which defeats the purpose of 'consistency' as you mentioned. UTC IS the time standard, so technically you're wrong.

Taylor_MB

Qyrk wrote: »

Taylor_MB wrote: »

It drives me nuts they don't use GMT.

It's an international game that doesn't use a system specifically designed to communicate consistent times over different locations.

@Taylor_MB It looks like you're not well informed. GMT can be used with UTC (which is what ZOS is using). But the reason why they use UTC is because some GMT countries switch to different time zones in their daylight savings time, which defeats the purpose of 'consistency' as you mentioned. UTC IS the time standard, so technically you're wrong.

From Wikipedia "The first Coordinated Universal Time was informally adopted on 1 January 1960." The first I've ever heard about it was right now googling because of this thread, haha, I don't know how that happened.

So it's exactly the same as GMT? In which case I'm cool with this. Don't the same countries / regions still switch to daylight savings? So just as consistent... or same levels of inconsistent cause of GMT in regards to DLS.

mwo1480

Mirelurk wrote: »

They did say no maintenance this week ... right up until the time they did maintenance.

Take from that what you will.

actually it said no maintaince 29th followed by pc na/eu maintaince tuesday 30th something something (dont remember exectly but they did noticed it from sunday)

Qyrk

Mirelurk wrote: »

Hmm, if so they maybe should have told the forum people ... the headline was "no maintenance this week"

@Mirelurk Wrong. You only read the top line where it says No PC NA/EU maintenance - May 29 but you didn't notice the PC NA/EU - May 30 right below it. It was up on Sunday - I know this since I am one of the oceanic that is always affected by maintenance in my prime time so I want to make sure I'm able to play one of these prime time nights (not tonight for me).

Paulington

Taylor_MB wrote: »

Qyrk wrote: »

Taylor_MB wrote: »

It drives me nuts they don't use GMT.

It's an international game that doesn't use a system specifically designed to communicate consistent times over different locations.

@Taylor_MB It looks like you're not well informed. GMT can be used with UTC (which is what ZOS is using). But the reason why they use UTC is because some GMT countries switch to different time zones in their daylight savings time, which defeats the purpose of 'consistency' as you mentioned. UTC IS the time standard, so technically you're wrong.

From Wikipedia "The first Coordinated Universal Time was informally adopted on 1 January 1960." The first I've ever heard about it was right now googling because of this thread, haha, I don't know how that happened.

So it's exactly the same as GMT? In which case I'm cool with this. Don't the same countries / regions still switch to daylight savings? So just as consistent... or same levels of inconsistent cause of GMT in regards to DLS.

This is why we use UTC as a co-ordinated universal time, it ignores DST as it is not a time zone.

When it comes to DST, every country on the Earth that observes it actually moves to a different time zone for that time. GMT becomes BST, CET becomes CEST and so forth.

The cool thing is that all you need to know is the UTC and your UTC+ or UTC- number and you can figure out your time no matter what.

Glamdring

Taylor_MB wrote: »

It drives me nuts they don't use GMT.

It's an international game that doesn't use a system specifically designed to communicate consistent times over different locations.

Lol utc = gmt

Taylor_MB

Thanks people! Learn something new everyday.

I'm still bewildered I've used GMT for so long and never heard of UTC.

Saturnana

SilverWF wrote: »

zaria wrote: »

is not UTC the same as GMT in practice.

Yes, it's the same. UTC - just a new name for GMT.

It's not exactly the same, though.. GMT is a timezone whereas UTC is a time standard.
The fact that they indicate the same time, is pure happenstance.