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If you follow the strict canonical hours, there is an hour every three hours from sunrise to sunset - sunrise being figured at 6:00 am and sunset at 6:00 pm. So the hours become:

6:00 am -- Lauds (Morning Prayer -- First hour)
9:00 am -- Terce (Third hour)
12:00 pm -- Sext (Sixth hour)
3:00 pm -- None (Ninth hour)
6:00 pm -- Vespers (Evening Prayer)

The day hours are the Latin words for third, sixth, and ninth -- which correspond to the ancient way of telling time, hence in the Passion accounts you have Jesus being nailed to the Cross at the 6th hour (12 noon).

Compline (Night Prayer) is to be said immediately before going to bed, which in the monastic tradition is between 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm. The Office of Readings can be said anytime and is frequently coupled with Lauds, but in the most ancient monastic traditions, it is said in the middle of the night -- between 12 midnight and 3 am.

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