>>>>[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).
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>>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.
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>You must have meant that 17:00 in the winter and 12:30 in the summer; right? Otherwise, we would be talking about Friday winter hours :)
No it was as I said. So everyone would get home using technology and be safe at home where they could turn it off as soon as three stars were visible in the sky. Which, fortunately, applied to us unbelievers as well.