This question just popped into my head and curious what other people think.
Is night time a particular time or just when it gets dark?
I ask this because at the poles it can be light out for 24 hours a day at their peak and in constant darkness at their trough. It'd be weird for me to call something nigh time when the sun is up all the time and vise versa.
So how do you determine what is day and what is night?
Here in Colombia morning starts between 5:30 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. when sunlight appears, while night starts pretty much after 6:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
What about you? Specially in the northernmost countries.
My five year old daughter just asked me this and, well, idk. Initally I thought, 1am? But then 12 is MID night.
So does that mean that the 24 hours is split into chunks? Does it magically make 6am the official morning? What of saying I was up until/ working until 2/ 3/ 4 in the morning.
12pm is noon.
Anything after is afternoon.
When does night begin?
I wouldn't categorise 5pm as afternoon, I'd call that evening.
You wouldn't say, I did X at 5 in the afternoon?
But if it is chunks, 6pm is the start of night?
WHEN DOES THE NIGHT END?
So, roughly: morning - it's getting bright, everyone wakes up; day - it's bright, everyone is doing their stuff; evening - it's getting dark, everyone is doing less serious stuff and preparing to sleep; night - it's dark, everyone is sleeping.
But I've noticed people saying "night” and meaning like 8 pm, 7 pm, even 6...
Me and my friends are having an argument about what time night starts they say at dusk and I say around five o clock what do you think?