All iRacing.com services will be coming down for maintenance and the deployment of the 2016 Season 1 update.
This maintenance will affect all iRacing.com regions and members will be unable host or join sessions during the downtime. Also, both iRacing.com commercial services and the iRacing.com forums will be unavailable for at least a portion of the maintenance window.
We’ll be accelerating into the 2016 Season with some exciting new content and updates; we hope you enjoy the ride!
iRacing.com Downtime Schedule:
EST
Tuesday 2015-12-08 0200 Hosted Sessions Unavailable*
Tuesday 2015-12-08 0600 Service Unavailable
Tuesday 2015-12-08 1400 Service Restored
UTC
Tuesday 2015-12-08 0700 Hosted Sessions Unavailable*
Tuesday 2015-12-08 1100 Service Unavailable
Tuesday 2015-12-08 1900 Service Restored
AEDT
Tuesday 2015-12-08 1800 Hosted Sessions Unavailable*
Tuesday 2015-12-08 2200 Service Unavailable
Wednesday 2015-12-09 0600 Service Restored
All times are subject to change.
Sessions in progress at the start of maintenance may be terminated. There will be no record of such events whether official or not.
* Hosted sessions are allowed that do not overlap the service maintenance period. For example, 6 hours before the service is down, you can create a hosted session that lasts 4 hours, but not one that lasts for 6 hours.
Does “1900” make you say “what?”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24-hour_clock
You might find the following time converters helpful:
http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/
http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc
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