Re: Temporal hours to modern hours

2019-05-02 Thread Michael Ossipoff
That sounds like just a conversion between two ways of naming the equal-hours. ...converting between the.modern 12-hour naming, and a numbering that calls the hour from 6 a.m. to 7 a.m. the 1st hour. It doesn't take into account the different lengths of the hours, which depend on the varying

Temporal hours to modern hours

2019-05-02 Thread Dan-George Uza
Hello, In a note quoted below from the "Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, John Murray, London, 1875" I found the following advice to convert temporal hours to modern hours. *"A very quick and easy rule of thumb, when we read "the third hour, the sixth hour", etc., is to add 3, 6, etc.