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At the beginning of Ufotable's UBW adaptation, on the day Rin was going to
summon Archer, the clocks happened to have moved backwards by one hour. She
considered that it may have been her father's doing.

Why did the clocks move one hour backwards?


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Why did the clocks move one hour backwards when Rin summoned Archer?


The explanation is kind of dumb.

The day before Rin summoned Archer, she was rummaging through her father's
effects in hopes of finding stuff that would be useful for the summoning. One
of the things she found was the box containing the pendant (and, at least per
the depiction in UBW 2014, the catalyst for Gilgamesh), protected by a magical
MacGuffin that, when activated, makes clocks go wonky and apparently rewind by
one hour. She activated the MacGuffin. The clocks rewound in two half-hour
increments. She only noticed one of the half-hour increments. The end.

Nasu later stated in an interview (in Complete Material 3) that this was
apparently an intentional "test"-of-sorts on Tokiomi's part, the idea being
that if she couldn't handle a minor issue like this, she wasn't cut out to be
in the war.

This makes no chronological sense, because Tokiomi likely never expected Rin
to be in the war in the first place (Tokiomi would have expected the fifth war
to take place around 2060 or so, by which time Rin would have had descendants
rather more sprightly than she), but there you have it.


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