Desk clearance UK HQs vs JHQ Rheindahlen.
For a substantial part of the year [memory fails] there was an hour's difference. with JHQ an hour ahead. This may just have contributed to the light cavalry charge, on bikes, downhill across the grass, at knocking off time on Fridays. That and a curry with happy hour.
My Met Office boss at Bracknell [my other one was SASO RAFG] was wise to this, as he had held the post before me. Thus Gosome got earlier and earlier, a pint or two pints earlier on some occasions. Drunk in charge of a bike in Germany could result in losing the driving licence. Pushing a bike, wazzed, from the Mess to Portadown Way was a big ask.