The British Horological Institute.

After a mutiny on the Nore in 1797, British ships modified the bell system on the dog watch (16:00 - 18:00) so that the mutiny signal of 5 bells was never again struck.

That’s wack. The bosses own timekeeping, too, I guess. That’s like if schools would force watch makers to skip 4:20 pm.

Sometimes it feels like Dōgen had the entire block universe idea seven hundred years early and other times it feels like he’s saying the complete opposite, coming across as if time were a running river.

Here’s someone’s 1995 attempt at sorting all of this out in the context of McTaggart’s “B-series” description of the block universe.