Dog watch of Ship's Bell clocks) website explanation it says that ..."the Evening Watch is periodically divided into two watches. These are called Dog Watches because they "dog" the watch schedule for all divisions ahead by one watch period". It can be surmised that this may mean an action similar to the "feed dogs" on a sewing machine, although obviously the use of the term predates the use in the sewing machine. Dog watch Dog watch, in marine or naval terminology, is a watch, a period of work duty or a work shift, between 16:00 and 20:00 (4 pm and 8 pm).
To Say Nothing of the Dog can be brought forward in time which heralds a renaissance in recovery of historically lost, destroyed, or extinct objects. To Say Nothing of the Dog To Say Nothing of the Dog: "or, How We Found the Bishop's Bird Stump at Last" is a 1997 comic science fiction novel by Connie Willis. It takes place in the same universe of time-traveling historians she explored in her story "Fire Watch" and novels "Doomsday Book" (1992) and "Blackout/All Clear" (2010). "To Say Nothing of the Dog" won both the Hugo and Locus Awards in 1999, and was nominated for the Nebula Award in