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November 1st is a bank holiday in France, so a lot of sysadmins won’t be happy and systems will be vulnerable.

• Xenoamorphous 4y ago
  Spain, too.
  • riffraff 4y ago
    Most of Europe with a historical Catholic majority. It's even an EU holiday.
    • wiredfool 4y ago
      Not Ireland. We've got the 31st as a bank Holiday.
• fulafel 4y ago
  This is most likely but another possibility is that it was coordinated to happen on a bank holiday so systems can be dated with less impact from service outages.
  • midasuni 4y ago
    In that case why not release about 0700UTC on a Saturday, pretty much everywhere has the weekend going either then or starting within a few hours
• solatic 4y ago
  Also an election day in Israel, which is a bank holiday.
• CodeWriter23 4y ago
  People don’t work “On Call” any more? That’s news to me.
  • Deathcrow 4y ago
    companies that abuse on call duty for planned maintenance suck. If it's something predictable or plannable, it's not on call. Hire people to work that day.
• chkal 4y ago
  Same for Germany... :-(