Undue: date=April 2009 Verify: date=April 2009 For: Evening (film) Evening is the period in which the daylight is decreasing, between the late afternoon and night, around the time when dinner is taken. Though the term is subjective, evening is typically understood to begin before sunset, during the close of the standard business day (about 6 pm) – and extend until dusk, the beginning of night. Evening thus spans the period of twilight, but begins before it and depending on definition may extend past its end. This places "evening" typically between 6pm and 8pm.

In the rural American South, "evening" 1 is often used to describe the entire late afternoon, especially when the main meal of the day, dinner, is taken in the early afternoon; evening is thus anytime after dinner.

Biblical definition

A formal definition is used for religious purposes. For instance, the Israelite priesthood of the Old Testament in the Bible, was required to perform certain duties "at even(ing)". However, this definition is controversial. There are three prevailing views:

1. The last quarter of the daylight portion of the day, before sunset. This view was held by the Jewish Pharisees and is supported in historical references such as Josephus and the Bible.
2. The twilight before dark, after sunset. This view was held by the Samaritans and the Karaites.
3. The moment after the sun reaches zenith. (observational “going down” of the sun) This view includes all the time that the sun is "going down" (after zenith) until such moment as it is no longer seen in the sky.

The Bible uses a term for the period of time between two distinct evenings: "beyn ha arbayim" translated as "between the two evenings". Though both of the above camps in the first two definitions define one of the evenings as sunset, the other is controversial. From the passages in Matthew 27:46, 57 and Mark 15:34, 42, the New Testament clearly supports the first evening to include the ninth "hour" of the day (an hour in the Bible defined as 1/12th of the daylight portion of the day), and the second evening, that ends the day, at sunset.

This issue of the 9th hour will affect and is also affected by how and what Christ meant by His 3 days and 3 nights “in the heart of the earth” (Mat 12:40/ death). Days are now commonly counted beginning at midnight to midnight or morning then evening. However, the bible states that the light was called “Day” and further that the first day was considered an evening then morning. ( the OT law does this as well Lev 23:32 see also Dan 8:26) Thus counting from the moment the sun begins to “go down” which by definition is any time after it reaches zenith, what is left then is:

1. Friday = evening(includes His 9th hour death)-midnight-morning