'Afternoon' in the Bible

It was now about the sixth hour (noon), and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour (3:00 p.m.),

He said to them, “Come, and you will see.” So they went [with Him] and saw where He was staying; and they stayed with Him that day, for it was about the tenth hour.

So he asked them at what time he began to get better. They said, “Yesterday during the seventh hour the fever left him.”

Now Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour (3:00 p.m.),

Cornelius said, “Four days ago to this hour, I was praying in my house during the ninth hour (3:00-4:00 p.m.); and a man [dressed] in bright, dazzling clothing suddenly stood before me,