In the Italian Middle Ages and the Renaissance the End of the Day Was Half an Hour After Sunset

Let’s think about how we worry about to do everything on time. We run more and more.  For what? We do that to be within the time limit – you can answer me . What time limit-  I would ask you ? We have to respect the time we have invented as a measure that were supposed to make our  life easier? Paradoxically, we have become prisoners of our own invention – the time. Yes , my friends, everything is relative . I’m sure you are thinking , she wanna  be a philosopher in this post  . Well, the history helps me in this case. Midnight is the end of the day today. In  the past it was different . In the Italian Middle Ages , and then in the Italian Renaissance the day ended half an hour after the sunset. Imagine what a mess ! Each month the sunset  was in a different moment so the end of the day was not at the same “ hour” . The time? It was the rural time or the one defined by  the Church in the Middle Ages. They had divided the day into 5 parts ( then there was the night) : morning , laudi ( before dawn ) first , third , sixth , ninth and Vespers. Imagine to organize an appointment  in the Middle age: " See you at the first path on the left at the third ( time). " Are you sure the two persons were be at the appointment at the right time? Luckily the  mechanical watches were introduced from that age and there were some other instruments measuring the time . Anyway the society  had to improve the definition of the time. Step by step, after many inventions  and discoveries during  the centuries ,at last midnight was decreed the end of the day for all the world . No distinction , no privilege. The first step towards the future globalization ! Anyway ... everything is so relative!