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Because they hand you out the time!

Hands got their label from ancient time when time was transmitted by "hand" when an individual would hold his arms to represent time based on the face of a clock as we know it. So if he held his arms straight out to his sides and level it would be eiither 9:15 or 3:45 and the difference would be understood by virtue of common sense.

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