[eastbound]

November 1st is a bank holiday in France, so a lot of sysadmins won’t be happy and systems will be vulnerable.

[fulafel]

This is most likely but another possibility is that it was coordinated to happen on a bank holiday so systems can be dated with less impact from service outages.

[midasuni]

In that case why not release about 0700UTC on a Saturday, pretty much everywhere has the weekend going either then or starting within a few hours

[solatic]

Also an election day in Israel, which is a bank holiday.

[CodeWriter23]

People don’t work “On Call” any more? That’s news to me.

[Deathcrow]

companies that abuse on call duty for planned maintenance suck. If it's something predictable or plannable, it's not on call. Hire people to work that day.

[Xenoamorphous]

Spain, too.

[riffraff]

Most of Europe with a historical Catholic majority. It's even an EU holiday.

[wiredfool]

Not Ireland. We've got the 31st as a bank Holiday.

[chkal]

Same for Germany... :-(