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"Can our app work from 8am to 9pm, Monday to Friday?"
"Yes but it's an app, it can run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week."
"Oh... Is it possible to make it work only from 8am to 9pm Monday to Friday? They're our opening times and we want everything consistent!"

Slippery slope, a very slippery slope...

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  • 18
    Error 555
    Closed for lunch!
  • 4
    Norwegian NAV was like that for years (nav is pension , unemployment and all pay out from the state service provider)
  • 3
    Had the same experience for a web app
  • 5
    If it's an app for chatting with the staff or any such function tied to the actual opening hours fine - otherwise they are just as backwards as it seems :)
  • 4
    Well, in Poland there actually are some governmental websites that only work from 9 to 5...
  • 5
    @eidar I always thought the janitor shutdown the server when he left work. Apparently, as unemployed, you were supposed to go to bed early, not looking for jobs after 23:00
  • 0
    When project maintainers are too lazy to maintain a simple config file with static urls and default settings.
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