Thursday's downtime will begin at the usual time of 11:00 UTC, however it will be extended through until 11:55 UTC, for a total of 55 minutes whilst we carry out upgrades to our backend software.

Extended Downtime – Thursday, December 5th 2013 – EVE Community
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