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Hi, just wondering what your source is for the explanation of the Nautical Day (Ship's Time) in the Nautical Time article? According to other sources, Ship's Time is actually behind Civil Time, not the other way around (there seems to be blanket confusion around this between various sources).

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks/e00043.html

"It was the usual custom on board ships to keep what was known as Ship time—i.e., the day began at noon BEFORE the civil reckoning, in which the day commences at midnight. Thus, while January 1st, as ordinarily reckoned, is from midnight to midnight, in ship time it began at noon on December 31st and ended at noon January 1st, this period being called January 1st. Hence the peculiarity all through the Journal of the p.m. coming before the a.m. It results that any events recorded as occurring in the p.m. of January 1st in the log, would, if translated into the ordinary system, be given as happening in the p.m. of December 31st; while occurrences in the a.m. of January 1st would be equally in the a.m. of January 1st in both systems."

The above explanation appears to match up with, for instance, Captain Cook's log entries in Ship's Time, vs the journal entries from the Endeavour, which were in Civil Time.

Badger Quill (talk) 23:31, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Please disregard this message - I misunderstood the gutenberg information, and the wikipage I'm referring to is correct — Preceding unsigned comment added by Badger Quill (talk • contribs) 01:04, 4 December 2019 (UTC)