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Re:As Office Space Shrinks, So Does Privacy for Workers by icpmacdo on Monday February 23, 2015 @04:28PM (#9097179)
> Some even only make their website available from 9-5, a cardinal sin if there ever was one

Not for the US so could you give me some examples?

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Re:As Office Space Shrinks, So Does Privacy for Workers by joshstrange on Monday February 23, 2015 @05:00PM (#9097333)
Here is one example: http://freakonomics.com/2012/08/20/this-website-only-open-du... but I'm pretty sure I ran into an issue with the IRS website (how we pay/manage our taxes) but now I can't find mention of it.

Some people have said it may be due to reports that run at night and can't have new data coming in while they run or something similar but I don't buy it. If that's the case then just modify your query such that the data it gets has a "WHERE submitted_date <= <EOD DateTime>".

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Re:As Office Space Shrinks, So Does Privacy for Workers by pc86 on Monday February 23, 2015 @07:41PM (#9098033)
Certain US federal government websites will be inactive during certain late hours. In extreme cases they are only available during regular business (9a-5p).

This is almost always because there is some ambiguously worded regulatory or statutory requirement that says that department or entity has to provide live personal support, and rather than pay the increased staff they just take the site down.

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