The announcements are in the timezone you set when you sign up for an account, just need to login and check the lodestone main page. EU don't really suffer anything from this maintenance as it goes from midnight till 10am so gives everyone a chance to get a good nights sleep! Even Japanese suffer more than us. I honestly don't really care for NA though seeing the state of these forums, and I know the majority are decent people but seriously I wouldn't blame SE for not caring when half the NA players on here slate their game every chance they get.