Github doesn't claim "five nines of reliability".
There SLA is for 99.9% ("three nines").
Which equates to:
Daily: 1m 26s
Weekly: 10m 4.8s
Monthly: 43m 28s
Quarterly: 2h 10m 24s
Yearly: 8h 41m 38s
https://github.com/customer-terms/github-online-services-sla