Byzantine time
0:00:00 begins daily at sunset rather than midnight
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Byzantine time is the final Greek Anno Mundi method of keeping time that originated in the Byzantine Empire.[1]
It is now rarely used save for in Eastern Orthodox monasteries, for example, on Mount Athos in Greece[2] and Mar Saba monastery in the West Bank. Ethiopia (where Oriental Orthodoxy is the largest religion of the country) also uses this type of timing.[3]
In Byzantine time, hour 0:00:00 begins daily at sunset rather than midnight.[1] Due to seasonal variations in the length of a day, hour zero can vary by several hours throughout the year. The Byzantine calendar is a related method of keeping dates.
See also
- Civil time
- Decimal time
- Roman timekeeping – Hour system with days divided into 24 hours
- Ottoman time also set the clocks at 12:00 at sunset.
- Relative hour – Hebrew term ascribed to an hour of a 12-hour day and how it is to be reckoned
