How Late is Late? How Early is Early?

One thing that I constantly find myself thinking when I visit larger cities than the QCA is that things are just open later.Now, that's not always true. I've visited places where the only coffee shop closes at noon, and where you'll be lucky to get a dinner at 9 pm. The QCA does a lot better than that! But transit (such as it is) ends before my internal clock says dinnertime is over, and grocery shopping after 9 or 10 is a matter mostly of Walmarts. Conversely, you have places like New York, branded as "the city that never sleeps," where the trains run overnight and supposedly you can get anything anytime. But most cities aren't like that either: they do have a time when things are shut down, whether for people to sleep, for maintenance to happen, to save costs, or just because.So how late is late and how early is early? Or, what are some benefits and drawbacks of when things are and aren't open?1. Varieties of ScheduleOne of the more legitimate critiques, in my mind, of 15 minute…