When is night on the internet?
It's not unusual for e.g. ecommerce sites to crank up automated fraud prevention "at night" because staffing is so much lower.
TL;DR Most sites' usage patterns exhibit a pronounced day/night cycle that's not too far off from natural day/night cycles where the bulk of the team lives.
(it's getting rarer, but it does still happen. Fraud prevention cranked up is definitely a thing on any large enough ecommerce website)