Request HN: maintenance messages of form "when this post is $n hours old"

3 points by hyp0 ↗ HN
For maintenance messages, could they be of the form 1 hour maintenance will begin when this post is $n hours old - and including how old it is, like an ordinary post. eg:

  maintenance will begin when this post is 1 hour old
This avoids users in other time zones from needing to work out what "PDT" is, and how to convert from it to their local time zone.

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Wouldn't it be easier to just have a countdown? ie. 1 hour maintenance begins in 5 hours 30 minutes?