Everyone outside the US loses access at normal hours.

That's true but what's worse is that "normal" is going to be defined not by each of us individually, but by someone higher up who knows what's best for us.

No, everyone outside of North, Central, and South America loses access at normal hours.

It should be pretty easy to set up so that instead of it going off at certain hours, it would just be blocked for some time period based on geographic location.

And the truly desperate would use proxies. :)

But under my hypothetical situation, it's just for a week - who cares? Alternate time zones, then you can be like my cofounders' sleep schedule.