>>[it's so obviously a friday after a very long week... they don't make them as short as they once did, eh?]
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>Some companies in the US still have Friday summer hours where the working day ends at 1 pm (real nice).

Worked at one such... and it was at 13:30 in winter... but all the way to 17:00 in the summer, as the sunset moves the border of the shabbat.