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3. The Solar day.

Europeans in civil life and in their Calendar reckon the mean solar day from midnight to midnight and divide it into 24 equal parts, called hours. The hours after noon are 1h P.M., 2h P.M,…12h P.M. or midnight and the hours after midnight are 1h A.M., 2h A.M,…12h A.M. or noon. Every hour is divided into 60 minutes and every minute into 60 seconds. European astronomers begin the day with noon and count the hours uninterruptedly from 0 till 24, adding to the hour the letter „h“. The European astronomical date therefore is the same as the European civil date during the afternoon (from noon until midnight), whilst during the morning (from midnight until noon) the civil date is greater by one than the astronomical.

The Chinese originally divided the solar day into 12 equal parts, designating these parts successively by the characters of the duodecimal cycle. In their Calendar, dating nearly 3000