in #CASE you missed it… Why We Say O’Clock
I always love learning new things and I try to make an effort to do so every day. So today when I learned this amazing and yet bizarre fact I had to share it.
We say it all the time and most of us don’t think anything about it. “The movie starts at 8 O’clock” – “We need to be there by 4 O’clock”
Well where does the O’Clock come from? Who started it? WHAT THE HECK DOES IT MEAN???
Turns out the practice of saying "o'clock" is simply a remnant of simpler times when clocks weren't very prevalent and people told time by a variety of means, depending on where they were and what references were available.
Generally, of course, the Sun was used as a reference point, with solar time being slightly different than clock time. Clocks divide the time evenly, whereas, by solar time, hour lengths vary somewhat based on a variety of factors, like what season it is.
Well now we have digital clocks and no one’s really using a Sun Dial anymore but for whatever reason we still use the term and it’s stuck around.