Why?

Why the hell does a website have “operating hours”? I want to check if my Lotto numbers won, and I can’t.

Can someone please shoot the person responsible at the Lotteries Commission for me. What sort of nutty bureaucrat dreamed up the idea of operating hours for a website?

I imagine the official answer will be something along the lines that problem gamblers are more likely to be online after 11 pm, so we close the site down at 11 pm, to stop those Lotto addicts.  Never mind such stupidity won’t stop a single problem gambler in the world – they’ll go to one of the 1 million other online gaming sites in the Internet. It just stops legitimate customers from checking their results or buying a ticket for next week.

Grrrr.