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*** I've always believed "Dark Hour" (or "Shadow Time" in the Japanese version) to be an in-game [[Woolseyism]] to refer to this effect, or a misnomer deliberately created by the characters to refer to it easily, but is not in fact an actual "hour," much less an effect that occurs everywhere in the world at whatever time. Rather like how we have expressions like "the eleventh hour" or "the final hour" and these are only intended to mean "moment" rather than a true measure of time. In my interpretation, the time-travel experiments performed by the Kirijo Group in Tatsumi Port Island opened up a gateway leading into humanity's collective consciousness, where Shadows reside; every midnight, and only in the vicinity of Port Island, those with the Potential ''slip'' into this pocket (for everyone else, the rollover is instantaneous, but people who function during the DH see them as coffins.) Then, at the end of the game, {{spoiler|Nyx forces open this gateway wide open and the entire city, if not beyond, is sucked into the pocket of consciousness to witness her arrival}}.

**** However Junpei states in a way that leaves no doubts during the going-to-the-beach arc that they have to return to the mansion before the Dark Hour, since no matter where you are it always happens at the same time. In fact I think I've got a save file just before that, let me check. Edit: Here, the actual quotes:

Junpei: Sheesh, it's just common sense! Even I remembered. }}

*** It only leaves no doubt if you assume the characters know how the Dark Hour works for certain, which... they really don't.