in #CASE you missed it… Why We Say "O’Clock"

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.