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I know I can say I'm having downtime. How would you say it about a computer (system). It has/ it's on downtime every night from 2 till 5?

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Yes. "The system will undergo scheduled downtime every day from 2AM to 5AM." is just fine. This is, of course, the opposite of uptime. If it is unplanned downtime, usually outage or network outage is used instead.

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  • I can't say it will have.... or it will be on... ?
    – Dunno
    Aug 15, 2013 at 14:34
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    Of course you can! The former (the system will have...) sounds better. I only wrote it the way I've seen it written in most announcements.
    – Amory
    Aug 15, 2013 at 14:38
  • I was just trying to see if it on and have work
    – Dunno
    Aug 15, 2013 at 15:37
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System downtime is from two to five every night is short and sweet.

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I like the sound of this:

The system will be experiencing downtime every night from 2 to 5 for [maintenance, repair, etc.].

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  • Please use block quotes (>) for quotations and examples, not verbatim blocks.
    – Bradd Szonye
    Aug 15, 2013 at 15:44
  • What is the "some" menat to imply? That it won't always be down for the whole period? Otherwise, omot "some".
    – TrevorD
    Aug 15, 2013 at 23:01

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