A weird consequence of Japan spanning a…

A weird consequence of Japan spanning a single time zone is that lots of apps stop working outside business hours for "maintenance".

I lost an hour today freaking out over error messages that my account was locked right around 11pm JST because (I now realize) their servers were only partially shut down.

2.6k likes · March 4, 2024 at 10:04 PM UTC

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