“...Ira put down the bag of pies - after spending four and a half hours in the chrono-economy, she still didn’t have time to get hungry - and pulled out another portion of ferromagnets from her bag. About the fact that with the help of magnets you can influence the operation of the minute clock in one way or another side, they knew for a long time. But this influence was completely unpredictable. The experimenters in my father’s laboratory prioritized the “multiplying” of the reserve stored in the minute clock - people were no longer attracted by the opportunity to save their personal time in order to use it later, when more necessary. Everyone wanted to save an hour today so that tomorrow they could get three, or better yet, five...”