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Midnight

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Midnight is the transition time from one day to the next – the moment when the date changes, on the local official clock time for any particular jurisdiction. By clock time, midnight is the opposite of noon, differing from it by 12 hours.

Solar midnight is the time opposite to solar noon, when the Sun is closest to the nadir, and the night is equidistant from dusk and dawn. Due to the advent of time zones, which regularize time across a range of meridians, and daylight saving time, solar midnight rarely coincides with 12 midnight on the clock. Solar midnight depends on longitude and time of the year rather than on time zone. In ancient Roman timekeeping, midnight was halfway between sunset and sunrise (i.e., solar midnight), varying according to the seasons.

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Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

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Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 512.
  • Is there not
    A tongue in every star that talks with man,
    And wooes him to be wise? nor wooes in vain;
    This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,
    And wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.
  • That hour o' night's black arch the keystane.
  • It was evening here,
    But upon earth the very noon of night.
  • I stood on the bridge at midnight,
    As the clocks were striking the hour,
    And the moon rose over the city,
    Behind the dark church tower.
  • O wild and wondrous midnight,
    There is a might in thee
    To make the charmed body
    Almost like spirit be,
    And give it some faint glimpses
    Of immortality!
  • 'Tis midnight now. The bent and broken moon,
    Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles,
    Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.
  • Soon as midnight brought on the dusky hour
    Friendliest to sleep and silence.
  • Midnight, yet not a nose
    From Tower Hill to Piccadilly snored!
    • Horace and James Smith, Rejected Addresses, The Rebuilding (Imitation of Southey).
  • Midnight, and yet no eye
    Through all the Imperial City closed in sleep.
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