I want my squid to stop serving internet at specified times I ADDED THESE LINES TO MY CONF then ran Squid -k reconfigure acl hours time 06:00-23:00 http_access allow hours yet it is now Mon Nov 21 23:16:10 PST 2011 and squid is still serving up internet hot and fresh I didnt try completely restarting squid yet, but I have a suspicion that wont do it either Squid Cache: Version 3.0.STABLE8 <---yes I know its a bit outdated but it works for me :)