'Afternoon' in the Bible

Now Peter and John were going up together to the temple complex at the hour of prayer at three in the afternoon.

About three in the afternoon he distinctly saw in a vision an angel of God who came in and said to him, “Cornelius!”

Cornelius replied, “Four days ago at this hour, at three in the afternoon, I was praying in my house. Just then a man in a dazzling robe stood before me