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    As a bit of light relief, there may be a limited connection between Halloween and Brexit; it goes like this. For many computers, time marches resolutely forwards from a fixed point in the past, Bill Gates' birth date for example. But for those who like clocks, time goes backwards when the clocks fall back; CHIEF is one of them. To prevent customs (but not Transit) declarations going backwards, CHIEF is switched off for an hour and sleeps until time moves on again. So if computerised import and export (but not Transit) processes are introduced into the Channel ports' traffic flows, they will be unavailable during that hour.

    Not a big deal, because it's in the wee small hours and the boxports already cope with it, but a bit of spooky fun none the less.

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