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Do you actually care if the requests were made on some specific calendar day? Or do you just want to make sure that heavy users are paying more and/or people aren't abusing your system?

Instead of tying your quotas to calendar days in some specific time zone, tie them to a rolling 24 hour usage period. Even better: use a rolling hour.



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