message from ana

[handrawn]

I just wanted to quickly pass on an important message from our developers.
On Wednesday the 24th of March Xara Cloud will be upgraded:
• 3:30am - 7:30am EST | New York
• 8:30am - 12:30pm CET | Berlin
Please anticipate that there will be downtime of Xara Cloud during the stated times above.
Thank you,
Xara Cloud Team

no longer a UK focus then...

[Acorn]

no longer a UK focus then...

What's an hour between "friends"? CET = UTC + 1.

Acorn

[handrawn]

why pick two is the question - stating UTC or EST or CET ok, but no need for two... once you open that floodgate you should do them all

[Acorn]

You have to read into Xara's ethos:

Our offices

Berlin: https://www.xara.com/wp-content/uplo...ized-12221.svg
Quedlinburger Str. 1, 10589 Berlin

Hemel Hempstead: https://www.xara.com/wp-content/uplo...ized-12222.svg
Gaddesden Place,
Hemel Hempstead, HP2 6EX

Remote: https://www.xara.com/wp-content/uplo...ized-12223.svg
Work-from-anywhere

5 Continents
48 Team Members
2m + Happy users

All funded in a 4-7 year make or break deal with https://bellevue.eu.

Warum sprechen wir hier bei TalkGraphics nicht alle Deutsch?

Acorn oder Eichel

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(Google Translate:

die Eichel	acorn, glans penis)

[handrawn]

it's just another example of the perverse way in which xara make themselves look amateur - you give out a notification at a time defined by a single timezone; UTC is a good default... but toon Boom will give EST; Microsoft PST; because of where they are; we are all capable of doing the math

die Eichel - glans penis

from small things big things one day come

[ss-kalm]

Maybe they are different server locations.

[Egg Bramhill]

They lost me when they went from GMT to UTC

[wizard509]

You have to read into Xara's ethos:

Our offices

Berlin: https://www.xara.com/wp-content/uplo...ized-12221.svg
Quedlinburger Str. 1, 10589 Berlin

Hemel Hempstead: https://www.xara.com/wp-content/uplo...ized-12222.svg
Gaddesden Place,
Hemel Hempstead, HP2 6EX

Remote: https://www.xara.com/wp-content/uplo...ized-12223.svg
Work-from-anywhere

5 Continents
48 Team Members
2m + Happy users

All funded in a 4-7 year make or break deal with https://bellevue.eu.

Warum sprechen wir hier bei TalkGraphics nicht alle Deutsch?

Acorn oder Eichel

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(Google Translate:

die Eichel	acorn, glans penis)

[handrawn]

Maybe they are different server locations.

I'm just cynical about ana [could be a song there...]

be that the case, the downtime occurs simultaneously , so you still only need one reference... else why leave out PST et al ...

and I would use a 24 hour clock then you don't risk thinking was it 8.30 pm or 8.30 am; but europe is used to '20.30 hours', I appreciate less so in the US

[Boy]

On Wednesday the 24th of March Xara Cloud will be upgraded:
• 3:30am - 7:30am EST | New York
• 8:30am - 12:30pm CET | Berlin

I'm no fan of Xara's communications but in this instance it makes sense to me to have US and European times, as the US is on DST since March 14th and Europe will only follow on the 28th. And I guess there are more EU customers than UK customers.