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> “This application is available daily between 8:00 am and 11:45 pm Easter Time.” I really hope the "Easter [sic] Time" is from the original site, not a typo i

> “This application is available daily between 8:00 am and 11:45 pm Easter Time.” I really hope the "Easter [sic] Time" is from the original site, not a typo in the blog. The only other business I've seen do this is B&H[0], which refuses to accept online orders during the Sabbath, as well as during several other Jewish holidays (such as the first and last days of Passover). The only other business I've seen do this was my previous landlord[1]. They used to let me pay my rent online. However, their system only let you pay during "standard business hours", completely negating (for me) the convenience of an online payment - I like to take care of my bills after-hours at home, not at work, thank you very much. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%26H https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%26H [1] Unlike B&H, the management company was not run by Hasidim.

mbesto 13y ago
Government sites in the UK have been known to do this as well.
- incompatible 13y ago
  Standard Life do it too, for their online account servicing. The website is still up, and you can log in, but it refuses to give you any information.
- oliverdavenport 13y ago
  The website to book practical driving tests in the UK is one of them.
w1ntermute 13y ago
It's quite common in Japan for ATMs to only operate during business hours. The Japanese are world-class experts at implementing technology in ways that completely negate its core value.
- hrktb 13y ago
  That's half of the story. The other half is the ATM is not just refusing to operate, it's behind closed doors to protect it from potential aggressions. Japanese bank are sharply close to their core values (keep the money).
- Chupachupski 13y ago
  I am aware that this was true in the past (a countryside ATM booth tried to lock me in at 6:00PM 11 years ago) but can you list any recent examples of this (bank names, ATM locations)? I was there in January this year and did not encounter this at all. The worst was an "after hours" fee of a few hundred yen at a Mitsubishi UFJ foyer ATM (after 10:00 PM IIRC).
jliptzin 13y ago
That's a typo (I had to actually type out the line word by word instead of copying and pasting because highlighting the text wouldn't work for reasons stated in the post :)
burntsushi 13y ago
I'm a grad student at Tufts, and our online course registration app does this (called "SIS"). You can only register for classes during some time period: 8am to 6pm, I think. It's crazy. Tufts recently hired a huge team to "fix" SIS. It's now called iSIS and you can tell it's still using SIS underneath. (The HTML markup returned is the exact same as before, but it's dressed up a little nicer.) Nuts.
- Fomite 13y ago
  God I hated this when I was at Tufts. But its far from the only university system to do this. I suspect a middleware vendor somewhere.
  - burntsushi 13y ago
    Oh, most definitely. I was at Worcester State before Tufts, and part of their registration had to be done via paper (in person at the registrar). It was almost as convenient as these online systems... (Assuming I was on campus anyway.)
- Buge 13y ago
  University of Michigan's student business site (registering classes, bills, transcripts, etc.) is closed from 4am - 6am every day and 11pm Saturday - 7:30am Sunday. I hit this period several times without knowing what was wrong. The warning isn't very obvious.
- stygiansonic 13y ago
  When I went to Queen's University, the web app for course registration, viewing your marks and other related tasks was rumoured to be a wrapper around a telnet interface. I never got confirmation, but the following evidence was enough for me: - Fixed number of columns/rows output on a given page and rendered in a fixed-width font so things would align. - The need to navigate through "pages" of information that were far smaller than what a browser could handle, but would make sense in a terminal window. - A form-driven interface with buttons for separate actions; the buttons seemingly would map to certain keypresses in a terminal interface. I'm guessing the original computer-based system provided a telnet interface in the '90s but this was deemed insecure/out of date as the years went by. Not wanting to significantly change the architecture, a web wrapper must have been deemed the best option.

mbesto 13y ago

Government sites in the UK have been known to do this as well.

incompatible 13y ago
Standard Life do it too, for their online account servicing. The website is still up, and you can log in, but it refuses to give you any information.
oliverdavenport 13y ago
The website to book practical driving tests in the UK is one of them.

w1ntermute 13y ago

It's quite common in Japan for ATMs to only operate during business hours. The Japanese are world-class experts at implementing technology in ways that completely negate its core value.

hrktb 13y ago
That's half of the story. The other half is the ATM is not just refusing to operate, it's behind closed doors to protect it from potential aggressions. Japanese bank are sharply close to their core values (keep the money).
Chupachupski 13y ago
I am aware that this was true in the past (a countryside ATM booth tried to lock me in at 6:00PM 11 years ago) but can you list any recent examples of this (bank names, ATM locations)? I was there in January this year and did not encounter this at all. The worst was an "after hours" fee of a few hundred yen at a Mitsubishi UFJ foyer ATM (after 10:00 PM IIRC).

jliptzin 13y ago

That's a typo (I had to actually type out the line word by word instead of copying and pasting because highlighting the text wouldn't work for reasons stated in the post :)

burntsushi 13y ago

I'm a grad student at Tufts, and our online course registration app does this (called "SIS"). You can only register for classes during some time period: 8am to 6pm, I think. It's crazy. Tufts recently hired a huge team to "fix" SIS. It's now called iSIS and you can tell it's still using SIS underneath. (The HTML markup returned is the exact same as before, but it's dressed up a little nicer.) Nuts.

Fomite 13y ago
God I hated this when I was at Tufts. But its far from the only university system to do this. I suspect a middleware vendor somewhere.
- burntsushi 13y ago
  Oh, most definitely. I was at Worcester State before Tufts, and part of their registration had to be done via paper (in person at the registrar). It was almost as convenient as these online systems... (Assuming I was on campus anyway.)
Buge 13y ago
University of Michigan's student business site (registering classes, bills, transcripts, etc.) is closed from 4am - 6am every day and 11pm Saturday - 7:30am Sunday. I hit this period several times without knowing what was wrong. The warning isn't very obvious.
stygiansonic 13y ago
When I went to Queen's University, the web app for course registration, viewing your marks and other related tasks was rumoured to be a wrapper around a telnet interface. I never got confirmation, but the following evidence was enough for me: - Fixed number of columns/rows output on a given page and rendered in a fixed-width font so things would align. - The need to navigate through "pages" of information that were far smaller than what a browser could handle, but would make sense in a terminal window. - A form-driven interface with buttons for separate actions; the buttons seemingly would map to certain keypresses in a terminal interface. I'm guessing the original computer-based system provided a telnet interface in the '90s but this was deemed insecure/out of date as the years went by. Not wanting to significantly change the architecture, a web wrapper must have been deemed the best option.