Another episode of "The Daftar"

(Title suggested by a very smart chap from Austin. "Daftar" is Hindi for "Office".)

The office has two clocks, one of them has a piece of paper with the word "Houston" being held against it. The clocks were just set up by the manager, who set the Houston clock to IST minus ten hours (when it should actually be IST minus ten and a half hours) and turns to us with a very proud look on his face and clears his throat to draw attention to the clock. He has taken a printout of the word "Houston" in a large font and is holding it up against the clock. "See, now we can tell the time in Houston."

Me (not impressed): Actually the time in Houston should be 30 minutes less than what you have there.

Manager spends another 3 three minutes changing the minutes field, which he isn't sure how to do. By the time he gets it right, I have to point out to him that he needs to add another 3 minutes to make up for the time elapsed.

Scene commences about 20 minutes or so after the clocks were set.

Time: 5:18pm IST (6:48 am CST).

Colleague (fellow engineer, very young): So our meeting with the Houston office is at 8am CST?
Manager (senior ... well, the less said the better): Yes.
C (not sure of himself): So, that will be another ...?
M: Another hour and a half, man.
(a beat, while the manager turns his head to look at the clock and mentally tries to calculate the difference between 8am and 6:48am)
M: Actually it's in another hour, man.
(another beat while he looks at the clock again)
M: Actually an hour and 10 minutes, isn't it?
Me (putting gun in mouth): Please, just pull the trigger.