Hour

An hour is a unit of time that is sixty minutes long. All hours are the same length, except the last hour of a working day, which is the same length but noticeably more of it.^[1]

Happy hour

Happy hour is a period of reduced prices in bars. It usually lasts two hours, which is the only known case of an hour being generous.^[2]

The clocks going back

Once a year the clocks go back and everyone gets an extra hour. Nobody has ever been able to say what they did with it.

See also

• Minute – one sixtieth of an hour
• Time
• Meeting – usually booked for an hour, uses two
• Big Ben – the bell that announces them

References

1. Tick, T. (1974). Sixty. Clockwork Press. Ch. 60.
2. Bar Council (1998). “Happy Hour: Clarification”. Lasted two hours.