From
here:To make up for it, we're offering a 3-day extension of Paid account time to our Paid members. All users with active Paid accounts as of Thursday, August 6, 2009, are eligible for the extension.
The link to the extension thingy is at the very end of the page.
This is about the non-working on August 6th. I went and checked my entry from that date, and apparently I didn't have any problems posting. The good old time difference, I guess. I still went ahead and claimed the free time though, although 3 days sounds like a joke. Oh, well.