I remember a joke from my youth. It probably goes back about 40 years.
Two Arabs planned to assassinate Moshe Dayan. They started tracking his movements and discovered that he ate lunch at the same cafe every day at 12:30. This happens once, twice.
After three weeks of tracking Dayan, the would be assassins get to the cafe early. 12:30 comes and goes. 12:45. 13:00 …
One Arab turns to the other and says “Gee, I hope nothing happened to him.”
Crossposted on Soccer Dad.
Gee, the way I heard it was that Moshe Dayan and another Israeli soldier were going to kill Nasser. You don’t think some Arabs would say “I hope nothing happened to him.”
The Arabs set the bomb for 12:30 and put it in the trunk of the car to be smuggled into Israel. They carefully time matters and at 11:25 they start the drive. The radio announces the 11:30 news, and, as they are driving, the bomb goes off.
The Arabs on the “West Bank” who built the bomb did not realize that Israel had switched to daylight savings time and the bomb had bee set to go off at 12:30 Winter (what Americans call Standard Time)