earlier in the day

[milan2003_07]

Dear friends,

"A dozen polar bears pick through the bone pile that sits just outside town. Men from the whaling crews had dumped the carcass of a bowhead whale on the pile earlier in the day."

What does "earlier in the day" mean? Does the phrase mean "earlier that day"?

Thanks

 

[emsr2d2]

Yes.

 

[Rover_KE]

What is the source of your quoted sentence?

 

[milan2003_07]

What is the source of your quoted sentence?

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/18/science/polar-bears-global-warming.html?_r=2

Hope the link will open on your computer. It's from a newspaper.

 

[Tdol]

I got the article in full. Thanks.