Thank you very much! It was actually about 5:30, Eastern Daylight Time, when I got my chili in the pot and poured a glass of California red wine.
(The Guinness is just a literary trope.)
I searched for a picture of a clock that had nothing but “5”s on it’s face, but couldn’t find one. The father of a friend of mine used to have one in their cabin at our Fish Camp. Of course, the cabin was named “Sip’n”