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Time Date	System Updates
Update 1026 1 December 2023	BACKUP RESTORATION DRILLS There will be some brief periods of downtime on Christmas Day, 25 December 2023, between 1200 and 1600 UTC for backup recovery drills. That's four hours commencing from : 1200 UK GMT 1300 Italy CET 1400 South Africa SAST 2000 Western Australia AWST 2130 Australia Northern Territory ACST 2200 Queensland AEST 2230 South Australia ACDT 2300 ACT, NSW, Victoria & Tasmania AEDT This is an important part of HOPS's resilience and data protection assurance processes. Time Register devices will continue to work as normal and transactions will be stored up on devices and uploaded to HOPS when it comes back online. We apologise for any inconvenience.
Update 835 12 January 2022	There will be a period of downtime for maintenance and upgrade work for approximately 60-90 minutes, commencing at 1400 GMT on Monday 17 January. For Australian HOPS, that's Tuesday 18 January at 0001 AEST, 0030 ACDT, 0100 AEDT. Time Register devices will continue to work as normal and transactions will be stored up on devices and uploaded to HOPS when it comes back online. In an emergency only, please contact Danny Scroggins at HOPS HQ via your HOPS Admin. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.
Update 232 20 October 2013	'Next Medical Exam Due' list pages have been added. These are in the Community menu for the whole railway (existing permission 144) and in the Departments menu for individual departments (existing permission 140). Thanks to Bo'ness & Kinneil Railway for requesting this.
Update 142 31 July 2012	View and Edit permissions for user's details will be separated down soon. The current ADMIN VIEW permission (91 for the railway and 90 for individual departments) and ADMIN EDIT permission (68 for the railway and 69 for individual departments) will no longer permit access to emergency contact details or medical information. New permissions have been created for these: View Medical details for a specific department: 140 Edit Medical details for a specific department: 142 View Medical details for the whole railway: 144 Edit Medical details for the whole railway: 146 View Emergency Contact details for a specific department: 141 Edit Emergency Contact details for a specific department: 143 View Emergency Contact details for the whole railway: 145 Edit Emergency Contact details for the whole railway: 147 ADMINS: Normally when permissions are altered we edit the system to make sure that service is continuous for those with the affected permissions, however, on this occasion, to ensure we err on the side of caution, we will NOT allocate these permissions to users who already have view/edit access by virtue of the current permissions (68/69/90/91). So, to ensure continuity of service these permissions have been created in the system now, in advance of the change, so that you can add them to the required users in readiness. The permissions have been prefixed 'FUTURE' to make clear that they are not yet in effect. When they come into effect I'll remove the FUTURE prefix.
Update 140 28 July 2012	Railways where the rosters are synchronised across the departments, and hence the availability opens in all departments on the same night, have pointed out that their users who belong to several departments receive several emails, one for each department, saying essentially the same thing. To counter this, if a user belongs to more than one department with availability opening at the same time, both messages will now be combined into the same, single, e-mail. I hope that helps. (Thanks to Sam, KWVR)