A name for every hour of the day like "midnight" and "noon".
Posted by diff2@reddit | CrazyIdeas | View on Reddit | 59 comments
like midnight, starwatch, deepnight, witchinghour, ghostveil, dawnwake, sunrise, morningtide, brightrise, workstart, midsky, forenoon, noon, heatcrest, sunstill, laborlight, fallglow, workend, sundown, gloaming, stardusk, nightcall, dreamgate, lastlight
Relief-Glass@reddit
What about one, two, three, four, et cetera?
cl0ckw0rkman@reddit
All the way up to 24, yes!
Fresh-Setting211@reddit
Correction: up to 23
Maniklas@reddit
If you start at one it would be 24....otherwise you need to start with zero, one, two etc.
greeeeeneyes4@reddit
That’s called military time.
Maniklas@reddit
Never heard of it.....must be some kind of 'murican thing
cl0ckw0rkman@reddit
I was gonna say 23... I use the 0000hrs format but I know some that use the 2400hr format.
Impossible_Number@reddit
2400hr makes no sense. After 2359, starts a new day hence 0000.
cl0ckw0rkman@reddit
Agreed. I have some older guys I know, for some reason they keep using 2400hrs on paperwork instead of 0000hrs.
My son even found an old AF digital watch that has 2400 instead of 0000. Baffling
I use 0000hrs. It makes more sense.
defectivetoaster1@reddit
what if we had a way to specify any time of day to any required degree of precision…
thenickksterr@reddit
Obtuse, rubber goose, green moose, guava juice. Giant snake, birthday cake, large fries, chocolate shake!
thenormaluser35@reddit
Didn't Italy use to have such names for hours?
In "the name of the rose" it's mentioned
GroundThing@reddit
I haven't read "The Name of the Rose", but those might be more to do with monastic hours (aka Canonical Hours) than Italian, which were the times dedicated to daily prayer.
FickleHare@reddit
Why are they all warrior cat names
tubaSergal2627@reddit
all these whimsical names for hours and still no love for brillig, from Lewis Carroll's Looking Glass, which was said to be roughly 4 o'clock, the perfect time for broiling. if i remember correctly
jeffcgroves@reddit
Ship's bells sort of do this: https://www.westmarine.com/west-advisor/Ships-Bell-Time.html
Your names, however, may not work, since dawn, sunrise, sundown, etc, don't occur at the same time every day or in every location. As an extreme example, some northern locations now have midnight sun meaning the sun never sets.
While the concept of days is based on the Earth's rotation on its own axis and the concept of months is based on the lunar cycle and the concept of years is based the Earth's revolution around the sun, things like hours and minutes and seconds are somewhat arbitrary. The second is well-defined in the metric system, but its origin is still arbitrary.
So, there's nothing fundamental about 24 hours in a day. You could consider a different number of hours and name those for example
Anchovy__Jones@reddit
True, but “noon” also refers to a solar event that happens at varying times and we were apparently fine naming an hour for it
jeffcgroves@reddit
TL;DR: historical legacy, probably shouldn't propagate
Good point, though I think that's because, historically, noon was though to be a fixed time and many localities kept time using the Sun. So noon was sort of adopted into our newer timesystem. I know that dawn, sunrise, sunset, and dusk have been used as times too, but people kept using noon even after they realized the length of the day changed with the seasons and that sunrise and sunset were not good ways to keep time.
So, it's probably not a good idea to go backwards into that system
gc3@reddit
No reasons the hours have to be sixty minutes as we can just divide the night into parts. We can use computers so don't have to have a standard length hour
Account_N4@reddit
The real crazy idea is always in the comments.
cyrilio@reddit
This is so true. I the middle ages when we didn't have clocks we still had morning, midday, afternoon, evening and night. They worked fine in winter and summer. But depending on the season some parts would last longer than others. I'm okay with that.
Hiteshoir@reddit
All the other hours looking at workstart like
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JCMiller23@reddit
if you came up with all of these, I salute you. If AI did that's another story...
bomboclat476@reddit
Probably from a goofy ahh fantasy book.
ENovi@reddit
Just say ass like a normal person
bomboclat476@reddit
Cornball
Rand-bobandy@reddit
Ironic lmao
bomboclat476@reddit
0/10 ragebait
_u_deleted_@reddit
low iq take
bomboclat476@reddit
Dude stop trying, the ragebait won´t work on me...
Vinny_Scurtch@reddit
geg
masterap85@reddit
What is the difference?
Whosebert@reddit
one is a display of creativity and thought. the other is a stolen collection of words that took $5k in electricity bills to produce.
SharpBlade_2x@reddit
The only issue is that things like sunrise and dusk can change drastically throughout the year, so some of the terms would be kinda weird for several months
LondonDude123@reddit
We should add a suffix at the end, like "Of The Clock"
We can call the first hour "One"... Then "Two"... Then "Three"...
"One Of The Clock", thatll probably get shortened down over time...
Avoider5@reddit
They have this in Game of Thrones
SuffnBuildV1A@reddit
Like happy hour?
konohasaiyajin@reddit
Time to return to 12 hour days. Bring back the ancient Chinese long hours!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqBVVLJbLR0
SheepSurfz@reddit
Tree o clock
love_u_bb@reddit
Let’s stop keeping time completely. Hate it
StalinTheHedgehog@reddit
Thank you for booking your flight! It will happen at.some point in the future
nothing_in_my_mind@reddit
Thanks, I am sure it will happen at the most auspicious moment
twoksman@reddit
Last time I fly it was half past dawnnight and it was the worst!
Accomplished-Fix6598@reddit
Is that half way to over sun?
love_u_bb@reddit
I get to fly? Yay
JayGold@reddit
Let's stop time completely. Hate it.
JCMiller23@reddit
I covered up my stove clock (and all other always-on clocks in my house) recently, it's made a wonderful difference in my life. Keeping track of of time at all times put pressure on me, this takes the pressure off.
love_u_bb@reddit
Ye totally terrible creation from humans. Time keeping is a terrible burden.
Accomplished-Fix6598@reddit
Hell minute.
Superomegla@reddit
The real crazy ideas are always in the comments
JayGold@reddit
According to Through the Looking Glass, 4PM is Brillig.
_-DungeonKeeper-_@reddit
I like this system.
MAClaymore@reddit
steakknife, cardshark, conjob, bootcut
gadget850@reddit
Or matins, lauds, prime, terce, sext, none, vespers, and compline.
Reasonable_Trifle_51@reddit
Those depend on the rise and setting of the sun however.
AliasMcFakenames@reddit
This one also has sunrise and sundown
wingspantt@reddit
Noon
Noonish
Sunmark
Schoolend
Workstretch
Rushour
Supper
Longlight
Primetime
Nearfall
Slumber
Whisper
Midnight
Witching
Ghastly
Void
Calling
Baking
Dawn
Reveille
Shopkeep
Business
Daythings
Brightness
Noon
nothing_in_my_mind@reddit
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Hours_of_the_day
dr_wtf@reddit
Don't bring me problems, bring me solut.... oh wait, good job! Proposal accepted.