But why?

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When you use the data collected on you by your smart phone to create realistic expectations.

I wish businesses actually honored their closing times... At least twice in the past year I've gone to a place ten minutes before closing and they're closed.
- If they're food places, that's either because the food takes longer than ten minutes, or because it'd been slow and they'd started packing up, or they were lying because they wanted to go home on time. Almost nothing more annoying than someone coming right at the end of your shift to order food.
- For the reverse, I used to live near a pizza shop that would frequently stay open several hours past their official closing time and it sure was a treat to walk by half drunk at 2 am to get a slice.
- it's because people arrive 1 minute before closing time asking for a task that takes 15 minutes and the employees are rightfully fed with that, because the owner won't pay the extra time
- If it's a restaurant, accept that it's run by humans.
  There's so many Karen videos raging at some minimum wage teenager who is closing up the kitchen earlier because it's been dead for an hour and the workers needs sleep.

If I had to guess, I would say that it's weird and therefore memorable, thus making their entire store memorable, which could, hypothetically, drive interest in whatever it is.

If that's the case, in most states they'd get into a lot of trouble if they don't follow those times. A lot of states (well, the cities and towns within those states) have regulations that businesses open to the public must display their business hours on the front. It's why you see them everywhere. Even in offices that probably have little to no "walk-in" traffic.

Because they can, and also fuck expectations.

Probably to make sure the customers know that they mean it. There are often a lot of people coming in one minute before closing time that don't leave in time.

Agreed

I'm a freight conductor and yard shifts have similar times. For example, tomorrow my shift is 06:32-14:32. They never explain why, you just show up when you're told.

The annoying one starts at 23:57.

That seems exceedingly efficient for the system in place — and clearly lacking any consideration for the human element of that labor pool.
- Sounds like a place where you are addressed by your employee ID number.

I get the feeling they're tied to public transport times, but then the first bus or train of the day usually comes at the same time. I used to work on the railway and sometimes I'd have to start work at like 05:17 or finish at 00:06 or whatever.

They are open -1 hours every day?

From the makers of FreedomFries and FreedomUnits, it's FreedomTime! No more worrying about numbers bigger than 12, just stop halfway through the day and start over. For Freedom!
- They named them freedom fries because France wouldn’t step to some fake threat. Just eww.
- In grade school I put my watch on "military time" because I thought it was cool. As an adult I have my phone on 24 hour time because sometimes you leave the blackout curtains closed and aren't sure which 3 o'clock it is when you wake up.
How odd would it be if this place was an atomic clock repair shop.

Why the fuck not?

Random start at stop times are just strange

All of the above times subject to the following: "Or whatever, get off my back?"

If you find a system that works for you, by all means, rock it.

If I was running. restaurant open from "10am-10pm" this would be great hours. Time for the crew to roll in a little late for their 9-930am shifts, enough time at the end of the day for the kitchen to be cleaned and the last load through the dish sanitizer before every customer is out by 945/10pm at the latest.

It actually seems realistic. Haha

So... They're pretty much open 24 hours with an hour break every morning?

The first set of numbers is likely AM and the second set of numbers is likely PM
- Yeah, some AM/PM would be nice, otherwise people would assume 24-hr.

It's quite normal to close early on a Sunday. Don't you have that where you live?

Not in America, we are wage slaves. Just getting by with each paycheck

Those are really long business hours

Those are am and pm hours
Not for a restaurant
- Kinda short for a 7-11 or an Urgent Care.