Comment by colechristensen

7 years ago

bhphotovideo.com observes the sabbath

https://www.holyclock.com/ """ HolyClock is a free service for closing websites on Shabbat and Holidays. The closing occurs before Shabbat enters, for each visitor individually, based on their physical location in the world at the given time.

With HolyClock you can prevent desecration of Shabbat by visitors of your website. A visitor who is located where Shabbat has begun, is redirected to a temporary closing page until Shabbat ends. """

  • I'm really interested to know how many have bought the $9/month Premium plan. Doesn't seem that expensive considering you can enroll as many as 3 whole websites! ;-)

Not really. You can still submit orders and use the site just fine, they just make it clear that they won't process or ship orders on the sabbath.

  • >Open 24/6 >Online checkout will be closed while we observe Shabbat from 8:15pm ET Fri until 9:45pm ET Sat. Although online ordering is unavailable, you may still add items to your cart or wish list.

Oh man when I was into photography I remember that.

It also gave some character to the site, making it clear that people were behind it. Of course they are, but the site too then felt a bit more personal.