Kiara informs us :

Beginning at 2:00 am Pacific Time on Tuesday, August 19, 2008 the SOE Petition System and Knowledge Base will be unavailable due to maintenance. The maintenance on the Knowledge Base affects all games and the maintenance on the Petition System affects all games except EQOA which operates on a different system. (PDT is -7 GMT: 3:00am MDT, 4:00am CDT, 5:00pm EDT, 9:00 GMT)

We expect this maintenance to take approximately five hours. We apologize for this interruption and hope to resume these services as soon as the maintenance is completed.