Quote Originally Posted by Gyson View Post
The interesting (if unsurprising) detail is that the housing reclamation timers failed to work properly. There had been just shy of 27 hours of combined downtime for Balmung since patch 3.1 was released and the servers came online. According to SE's own explanation, that meant none of the homes on Balmung should have been demolished until several hours into 12/26 (in North America). And yet they were demolished on that server almost 13 hours early during Christmas Day.

While I'm sure that was a relief for the people camping locations yesterday and waiting, the reality is the demolitions happened prematurely.
Hard to say how they decided to calculate it, exactly - there were multiple reports of people getting 3 day notices that stated 11 AM PST - and the actual demolitions took place 1-3 hours after that depending on server...so I would say it was close to what the 3 day warning stated + maintenance.