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on Jul 14, 2021

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Hours of operation

If you have a cafe open from 7 am to 8 pm, isn't this 13 hours of operations? I would calculate it as 20 (8 pm conversion to 24h format) - 7 = 13, isn't this how you do it? I saw a prompt say it's 14 hours of operation.

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