Byzantine time

Byzantine time is an old method of keeping time that is now mostly extinct. Hour 0:00:00 begins daily at sunset. Due to seasonal variations in the length of a day, hour zero can vary by several hours throughout the year. It is now used in very few places, for example, the Eastern Orthodox monasteries on Mount Athos in Greece[1] and Mar Saba monastery in the West Bank. Ethiopia (where a branch of the Eastern Orthodox church is the single largest religion) still uses this type of timing[2][3]. The Byzantine calendar is a related method of keeping dates.

References

  1. ↑ "Mt. Athos: A visit to the Holy Mountain". CBS News. 21 April 2011. p. 4. Retrieved 2 January 2012.
  2. ↑ "Time in Ethiopia". Wikipedia. 2017-01-01.
  3. ↑ "If you have a meeting in Ethiopia, you'd better double check the time". Public Radio International. Retrieved 2018-03-13.


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