Time for a revolution

I’ve always thought that our way of telling time doesn’t fit our culture very well, particularly the way that a day officially begins at midnight. What sense does that make in a culture where people so often stay up beyond that time? Below is my idea for a better system.

Let the day be divided into four sections: morning (6:00am to midday), afternoon (midday to 6:00pm), evening (6:00pm to midnight) and night (midnight to 6:00am). It seems to me that these definitions are very similar to the way people already use these terms, but under my proposal it would be official.

Let night be known as post-evening and also as pre-morning, so that “post-evening Saturday” is synonymous with “pre-morning Sunday“. This should be thought of as analagous to the fact that in music, “C Sharp” is synonymous with “D Flat“. Thus the six hours from midnight to 6am would belong equally to both the day before and the day after, and during that period you could please yourself how to use the terms “yesterday” and “tomorrow” (just as people do now after midnight, but without the uneasy feeling of being technically incorrect).