What if, instead of a pause, things were just reverted to a period before the holidays. For example: date that is saved is 22nd of December, and on the 9th of January things will be restored to how they were on the 22nd of December. Anything that happens between these two days will be lost at 00:00:00 on the 9th of January, giving the same end effect that a pause would. It would let us have giant holiday battles between the two dates so that we could celebrate with no consequences.