The best time is usually a Wednesday at Noon or 11:00 in the impacted timezone. Of course, if the impact is worldwide then that would probably be UT1 :)
--- The fact that there's a Highway to Hell but only a Stairway to Heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic volume. >-----Original Message----- >From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Christopher >Morrow >Sent: Wednesday, 30 January, 2019 18:55 >To: Jim Popovitch >Cc: nanog >Subject: Re: DNS Flag Day, Friday, Feb 1st, 2019 > > > >On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 5:41 PM Jim Popovitch via NANOG ><nanog@nanog.org> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2019-01-30 at 17:22 -0800, Matthew Petach wrote: > > Any chance this could wait until say the Tuesday > > *after* the Superbowl, when we aren't cutting an > > entire religion's worth of potential workers out of > > the workforce available to fix issues in case it > > turns out to be a bigger problem than is expected, > > and when we have less chance of annoying the > > vast army of football-loving fans of every sort? > > IIRC, DNS Flag Day was announce way before last years Super >Bowl... > what did the people who aren't ready for DNS Flag Day do in the >past > 364 days that they need a few more days to get ready for? > > > > >Oh, so they had 365 days to plan the time of the event and still >picked a friday for that event? > >https://www.opsview.com/resources/system-administrator/blog/three- >reasons-why-not-make-major-it-changes-fridays > >I see.
