Too early!

There's a five o'clock in the morning apparently! What's up with that?

Although, more interestingly, why are there two five o'clocks? Why did we decide to start counting again from the middle of the day (or alternatively the middle of the night)? It's all about the meridian, but we don't count to the meridian, it's hours after the post or the ante... but surely it would make sense to just start counting from one point and keep going until you hit that point again (hence all those hundred of hours the military keep going on about).

There is an answer to all this. The Discoverers is a book I've been told about that explains the history of various things, including the origin of why time is split up the way it is. I even have a copy. However... over 700 pages! In a hardcover! That's a lot of reading!

One day, I will read it... one day... perhaps when I'm up at five in the morning again and wondering why...

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