# When is the weekly downtime for the U.S. WoW servers?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 6, 2006, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-weekly-downtime-for-the-u-s-wow-servers/371606 "2006-09-06T06:47:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-weekly-downtime-for-the-u-s-wow-servers/371606/1 "2006-09-06T06:47:37Z")

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Just interested, really.

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**Author:** ![Lazlo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lazlo/32/9678_2.png) [@Lazlo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lazlo)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-weekly-downtime-for-the-u-s-wow-servers/371606/2 "2006-09-06T09:15:49Z")

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Tuesday mornings from 6-10 central time.

[Relevant post on WoW forums.](http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=13342038&sid=1)

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**Author:** ![Lazlo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lazlo/32/9678_2.png) [@Lazlo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lazlo)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-weekly-downtime-for-the-u-s-wow-servers/371606/3 "2006-09-06T09:18:16Z")

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[QUOTE=Lazlo]  
Tuesday mornings from 6-10 central time.

[Relevant post on WoW forums.](http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=13342038&sid=1)  
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Now during daylight saving, I guess that would be 1100-1500 GMT?

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**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-weekly-downtime-for-the-u-s-wow-servers/371606/4 "2006-09-06T10:09:27Z")

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[QUOTE=Lazlo]  
Now during daylight saving, I guess that would be 1100-1500 GMT?  
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Interesting, thanks. I assumed maybe that they’d all be scheduled for the same time, or that they’d be in the middle of the night so less people are annoyed - neither’s the case (European servers are down 0400 - 1000 GMT).

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**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2006, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-is-the-weekly-downtime-for-the-u-s-wow-servers/371606/5 "2006-09-06T11:16:17Z")

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They are down in the early morning hours Pacific, which is where Blizzard is based.