[qwyxzy]

Apparently they can see into the future and know for a fact that they'll still be having issues in a few hours.

  January 28, 2016
  00:00 EST The status is still red at the beginning of the day

  January 27, 2016
  20:02 EST We're continuing to investigate a significant network disruption affecting all github.com services.

[peterkelly]

... or you're in a different timezone. It's 11am on the 28th where I am.

[scoates]

It says EST there. It's wrong. Looks like it's reporting times in UTC but marking them EST (for me at least).