Being fashionably late needs a fixed start time to be late to, and a study of clock accuracy and walking speed found pace of life varied systematically across 31 countries, while f...
The convention needs two things: an hour firm enough that twenty past reads as a choice, and a host who reads it that way. Levine and Norenzayan measured walking speed, postal clerks and public clocks in 31 countries and found the pace of life varied systematically.
