Honestly, most of the ex-FFXI gamers should know to expect maintenence. Like at least 2 of them. should have taken it into account in your guess!

I say they should just keep the countdown going as is, to spare themselves the headache of figuring out when each server went down and subtracting that servers time from each individual entry after figuring out which person belongs to which server.

After all, you were supposed to predict how long it would take for her to go down after the patch went live. You should have forseen the downtime.