midnight

     

Minight is, literally, "the middle of the night." In most systems it is when one day ends and the next begins: when the date changes. Originally midnight was halfway between sunset and dawn, varying according to the seasons.

Trivia about midnight

  • Time when the raven came rapping
  • Cinderella's deadline
  • Most people are in bed by this time, the devil's dancing-hour
  • If Cinderella's having a ball at 11 P.M. in Bangkok, she may not want to know it's this hour in Beijing
  • Around 500 Indian astronomer Aryabhata was one of the first to mark this as the start of a day
  • It's the hour when "The Raven" takes place
  • Sidney Sheldon wrote "The Other Side of" & "Memories of" this
  • In 1970 Eric Clapton warned us, "After" this title hour, "we're gonna let it all hang down"
  • Title time for a New York "Cowboy"(8)
  • Leopoldo Lugones gave us "Twilights in the Garden"; John Berendt, this time "in the Garden of Good and Evil"
  • "I Shall Wear" this is Terry Pratchett's latest bestseller about young witch Tiffany Aching