At 8:12, every clock leaped to 8:17.
City Hall calls it a “slight discrepancy”; time itself denies any involvement.
Residents first thought it was a collective outage, then a secret Monday-morning sale. In cafés, orders arrived five minutes before they were placed. A baguette was even declared “already stale” before it left the oven, which greatly vexed the baker.
“I haven’t moved ahead at all,” affirmed the grand clock at the station, interviewed by our special correspondent, who did not, however, have a tape recorder. “And anyway, if I were fast, I’d know it.” It then struck noon at 11:55, without comment.
Experts are divided: some mention a particularly punctual draft, others an excess of zeal in the gears. Our newsroom tried to verify these hypotheses, but its article was published five minutes too early.
As we go to press — or rather five minutes before — the clocks still haven’t gone back. The city, for its part, has decided to wait until tomorrow to worry about it.
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