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I know of at least one site in the US that does the same. B&H, a venerable camera & electronics store in NYC, shuts down their shopping site every Saturday ( http://www.bhphotovideo.com/ ).
That's for religious reasons.
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Does Germany only have one time zone?
Yes, CET (UTC+1) and CEST (UTC+2) during summer.
It’s still slightly funny that most kids in the world are theoretically able to view the videos at non-approved times. Will nobody think of the (non-CET) children!
reminds me of mbank.pl - a polish _internet only_ bank which accepts money transfer orders only from 0800 - 1800 hours and not on weekends. no, they don't save the order to execute it the next morning. they just print an error message and you have to enter your transfer order during opening hours.
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wow, I didn't know they do that. In Czech republic this functionality works all the time, I wonder why they behave differently in these two countries.
oh no, it's only this one bank. online banking with other banks (haven't tried them all - 3 accounts is enough cough ) works as expected. it's only ironic because mbank is an internet only bank :)
What's more interesting, mbank uses the same backend for pl, cz and sk. I know that it works in cz and sk exactly the way it is supposed to do. Why is pl exception?
It's not an altogether unreasonable approach to security. It doesn't sit particularly well with geeks, but for complex systems with a high risk of fraud there's a great deal of damage-limitation to be found in only processing transactions when they can be manually monitored. Heuristic intrusion detection is still relatively poor. For a government-to-business service, the overwhelming majority of legitimate transactio…
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Being a German, I can hardly imagine security being the reason - I rather think it's bureaucracy and/or a complete misunderstanding of how computers work. Public services either close much earlier, or are 24/7.
Oh, I very much doubt that. If anything, I'd wager it's a purely technical/process decision. I bet there's some ancient mainframe deep behind that API that runs batch jobs and reports overnight.