Answer: The details of the length of the day add a sense of timeliness and limitations. When story's exist outside of time they are just random excerpts but once it has time it can begin to have a sense of actuality. Once it is grounded in time it gives more meaning to what's going on because everything has to be kept on a schedule so everything that happens is important. Daylight came at nine o'clock. At midday the sky to the south warmed to rose-color, and marked where the bulge of the earth intervened between the meridian sun and the northern world.