Actually they posted at 6pm saying it'd go down in 15 minutes for 1 hour. Then they extended it by 45 minutes, 6pm + 15 minutess + 1 hour + 45 minutes = 8pm. You just forgot to calculate the 15 minute advance notice for the downtime.
Actually hyman is fine, that's just an obscure male name, and probably because it sounds like the word the OP was thinking of. Change the 'a' up a vowel and you get the word he wanted. That is unless this is another of those Birttish/American differences :P The only reason English is so hard to learn is because there's too…
About the whinging/whining thing. It was partially humor (and yes I'm a bloody American) but also a bit of a blonde moment. You'd think with as much BBC as I watch I'd remember that and once I saw the first post about it being Brittish I remembered. I still blame No Child Left Behind even though I was long out of college…
What exactly is whinging? It sounds like some sort of sex act involving wincing :) I do believe the word you were looking for is whining. I blame No Child Left Behind for all the bad spelling on the internet :P