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What range of time can I use when saying "It's morning already, please get up" and "It's night already, please go to bed"?

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When you say "It's morning already, please get up," you are typically referring to the early hours of the day, which usually range from around 6:00 AM to 10:00 AM, depending on individual schedules and lifestyles.

Similarly, when you say "It's night already, please go to bed," you are typically referring to the later hours of the day, which usually range from around 8:00 PM to 12:00 AM, depending on individual schedules and lifestyles.

Now is 5am or 11 am, can I say "It's morning already, please get up"?

Now is 7pm, can I say "It's night already, please go to bed"?

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    This depends at least somewhat on when daybreak and nightfall occur. 7pm may or may not be nighttime depending on your location and time of year, and you of course would not say it's night if the sun is still up.
    – Nuclear Hoagie
    Jun 27 at 14:14
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    Most Anglophones live at latitudes where there's considerable variation in the hours of light or darkness through the year, so we don't normally use light, morning, dark, night as per OP's examples. We usually say It's late! - which is relative to (constant) clock time, not (variable) "sun time". Today, only low-tech farm workers are likely to hear It's light already! Time to get up! You wouldn't often say It's dark already. Time to go to bed. In Scotland it might be dark before children have had their tea, so it's a bit mean to pack them off to bed hungry!
    – FumbleFingers
    Jun 27 at 14:27
  • Are you asking what constitutes the morning and night? You should be able to get that from a dictionary. There's nothing in these phrases that is non-standard. Note that ChatGPT is just a program that generates random strings of words according to a probabilistic algorithm and doesn't know anything.
    – Stuart F
    Jun 27 at 15:07
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    We don't use those;. We say bedtime and time to get up.
    – Lambie
    Jun 27 at 15:09
  • @FumbleFingers - Or the reverse - see RLS Bed in Summer!
    – Kate Bunting
    Jun 28 at 8:16

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There are absolutely no rules here at all

"Night time" or "bedtime" is entirely a parenting decision, as is "wake up time". In the UK it is very normal for children to go to bed while the sun is still above the horizon during summer. Conversely, in winter it is dark by 4pm, and still dark at 8am, so children will go to bed and probably wake up in the dark.

When you choose to tell your children that it is "bedtime" is entirely a parenting decision.

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