An Idea by Tom Zurinskas 1-21-26 
Current time is based on Egyptian sundial time, where the mid-day sun is always at noon everywhere on Earth depending on Earth’s orbit (with accuracy between -14 and +28 minutes). However, saying it’s “mid-day” and “midnight” at 12 o’clock doesn’t actually feel like “mid”. Therefore, for better hourly representation, we should change Sundial Time to Equinox Time with 12 o’clock at dawn and dusk to be in line with daytime and nighttime hours. I explain below.
The ancient Latin, the terms for today’s hours are AM, meaning “ante mediem” or “”before mid-day,” and PM, meaning “post mediem” or “past mid-day.” But we tend to think of AM as “daylight hours” and PM as “nighttime” hours. To make this real, we merely need to move clock time forward 6 hours to where 12 o’clock is at 6 AM. This makes all AM hours in daylight, and all PM hours at night,, which is a more reasonable way of thinking about times of day. After all, there’s nothing “mid” about mid-day or midnight, because half of AM hours are in daylight and half in darkness, and also half of all PM hours are in daylight and darkness as well.
The ”mid” standards were based on the Egyptian sundial clocks thousands of years ago. They established a 24-hour day split into two 12 -hour halves. The sundial was their marker. It would always determine mid-day as a standard of time. Then determining midnight must have come with the introduction of water-dripping clocks that could be seen at night by lamps to show hours at night.
The upgrade Equinox Time takes its marker NOT from the mid-day sun but from the times of sunrise and sunset. Amazingly, these times are the same (6 AM and 6 PM) all over the world at Spring and Fall Equinox, which is 6 hours different from Sundial noon and midnight. Thus, two times per year the hours of day and night are equal (12 hours) and given the name “equinox” (fom Latin meaning “equal night” as compared to day).
And another “equal” thing happens in Equinox time: when days get longer in summer and shorter in winter, it’s by approximately the same number of minutes at dawn and dusk per location. This is a convenient way to judge daylight changes .
For you to make the change from Sundial time to Equinox time, merely move the clock forward (or back) 6 hours, so 6 AM to 6 PM becomes 12 AME to 12 PME, which is dawn to dusk in Equinox Time. This can be done at any time of day. So, if it’s 10 AM in sundial time, it’s 4 AME in Equinox time, and it means that there are 8 hours to go to sunset (add a few minutes for summer and take away for winter).
A typical day would be like this; wake up at 1 AME (7 AM), get to work at 2 AME (8 AM) , Lunch at 6 AME (12 PM), home from work at 11 AME (5 PM), dinner at 12 PME ( 6 PM dusk), bedtime at 5 PME (11 PM), and wake up again at 1 AME again, after 8 hours sleep (5 PME to 1 AME).
You can practice Equinox time by subtracting (set clock back) 6 hours from present Sundial time. Remember that time has base of 12, thanks to the Egyptians. So, for example, 2 PM Sundial time becomes 8 AME Equinox time for base 12 subtraction. Perhaps it’s Better to picture the dial of a clock moving back 6 hours. Remember dial clocks?
Enjoy Equinox time.