To be fair, if you have to take a system down... I can't imagine many people pay their water bill at that time.
It's more fun with global systems, of course, because midnight here isn't midnight elsewhere. Then you get know-it-all users telling you how easy it would be not to do it like that. Yeah, well, I have the spreadsheets that tell me how much it would cost.
One of the most disappointing things about my current job was the discovery that scrum masters don't have big swords and can't be commanded to kill those who displease me. God, it's like being caught in a nerdball D&D universe. What's worse is that my encyclopaedic knowledge of Buffy quotes had lost contemporary relevancy.