Google went dark for 2 minutes

[hazelnut]

Google went dark for 2 minutes and world net traffic dropped by 40%.

 

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/17/google_outage/

[Andavari]

Wonder how much bandwidth was saved/not used during the whole whopping humongous 2 minutes.

[Alan_B]

What is "4:37pm Pacific Time to G.M.T."

http://www.worldtime...o-gmt-converter

That shows PDT or PST, but no PT - Pacific Time "is neither Fish nor Fowl"

My best guess is 23:37 GMT,

 

About 22:00 GMT my Browser was running with Gmail on one of its Tabs,

but it was in the background whilst I tested some software when my computer crashed and shut down.

I restarted and launched my browser and restored the previous session which brought back all the TABs that had been open - apart from Gmail.

 

I clicked my bookmark shortcut to launch Gmail and enter my account,

and each time Gmail refused to even recognise that I had an account - but It recognised my wife's account.

This would have been around 22:37 GMT ( give or take half an hour)

 

I feared that either my Windows installation or my browser profile was corrupted, and called it a night.

 

This morning I powered up and as I hoped but really doubted,

after an overnight shut down and start up all was well again,

and Gmail was working again.

 

Conclusion :-

Either Google went dark at 22:37 GMT,

or about 1 hour before Google went dark there were problems with Gmail,

and either there was a cascade of servers falling over and taking down their neighbours,

or

Google phoned Technical Support and they asked

"Have you tried switching off and switching on again"

[login123]

interesting site:

http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/

[hazelnut]

A site with an awful lot of additional info here

 

http://www.timeanddate.com/

[Derek891]

I thought I had felt a disturbance in The Force. This explains it.