Sadly, you probably won't update your IVR system with your holiday hours either. You always end up having to talk to a real person to find out. It's kind of ridiculous.
they often do. Google is quite insistent on getting businesses to update their holiday hours for any common holidays, and when you look up business hours on a holiday you see the result of this - many businesses do update their holiday hours, and the business listing tells you whether the business owner has confirmed that the hours are correct for the holiday, or they have not updated the page for the holiday.
In many ways Gopher was better than the web, because a gopher client could make more decisions about how to present the data than the web, for which the presentation is mostly prescribed by the content provider.
I wonder how often that's the case.
When you launch it the phone geolocates and shows you a message at the top of the screen like "Target at Xyzzy opens today at 10am!" or "Target at Xyzzy is open now and closes at 9pm!" Super useful, and unobtrusive.