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I grew up in an era where most shops traded 5 and 1/2 days a week. Many small businesses traded late where allowed, mainly food and other meals along with dairy where the cows could not be governed by shopping hours.
Hotels for a period had severely limited hours by law (This did not stop drunken and loutish behavior). We survived well because we organised our requirements much better and had much less money to throw around.
Today's permissive society has removed the restrictions on the need to organise ones life thus leaving more free time and mechanisation has shortened working hours with more money. This results in large numbers of the population with nothing else to do except cavort around "night life".
Changing opening hours for "night spots" is not going to change these people's behavior. Theoretically the law establishments should be able to control the bad behavior but when examined most of the loutish behavior is techically not breaking the law any longer since the summary offences act was changed some time ago.
Prohibition actually had the opposite effect of its design when introduced in America in the early part of the last century.
Barry
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