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I didn’t know that the day ends at sunset. Did they also have a different clock for hours and minutes or it simply didn’t exist? Just wondering about Jewish ti

• antognini 4y ago
  At least around the time of Roman rule the day was divided into what are called "canonical hours" so that there were 12 equal hours during the day and 12 equal hours during the night. This meant that during the summer the hours during day would be longer than the hours during the night and vice versa during winter. But keeping track of the hours themselves was a bit hard, so usually people only referred to three major hours of the day: Terce, around mid-morning; Sext, at noon; and None, around mid-afternoon. So yes, the hours of the day were absolutely dependent on the latitude (along with the day of the year).
• reissbaker 4y ago
  Yes! Great intuition. The Jewish timekeeping scheme is based on "relative hours" — there are always precisely 12 hours of daylight, and 12 hours of night, regardless of how long the day or night is. The time is directly associated with the position of the sun relative to the Earth. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_hour https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_hour