[Avodah] The Molad of Tamuz

[Zev Sero]

On 02/07/18 10:07, Micha Berger wrote:
> I am wondering if calling 6pm or sunset "zero hours" when announcing
> the molad rather than 6pm / 1800 is an Edot haMizrach thing.
> 
> The Gra shul has (had?) a clock that ran on the old Ottoman system
> "Alaturca", and someone set the clock to 6 every evening at sheqi'ah.

But even they set it at 6, not at 12.  The convention of starting the 
numbering at midnight penetrated even the Ottoman lands.

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