and market closed when clock tips @ 1:11:01 WST
also todayarmisticeIt commemorates the armistice signed between the Allies and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front, which took effect at 11:00 am—the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month." ... The First World War was considered in France as the "Great Patriotic War".