Instead of using 12 o'clock as a starting point for time, 6 o'clock is used instead...so, on a 24-hour clock, outside of Ethiopia (and I believe Kenya as well), it is currently 17:05, but here, my tablet computer and hanging wall clocks show the time as 14:05. I don't quite understand the rationale behind this measurement of time, but I will pretend I'm in NYC and use California time to try to keep it straight.
I stand corrected--a gentleman in this restaurant explained that Ethiopian time is 6 hours off...so an opening time of 3 pm Ethiopian time means 9 am as I understand it...he tried to explain the rationale again to me, but I still don't understand it...so I will just subtract 6 hours and leave it at that :-)
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