He even tried to fix it within the original window before the softfork took effect, but then the sham and sockpuppet witnesses went and changed the soft fork time from 14:00 UTC to 10:00 UTC. Most of the sham witness nodes (all ~10 of them ;) updated less than an hour before 10:00 UTC.

https://github.com/steem-witnesses/steem/compare/0.22.888...0.22.8888