is a thing just because time always tends towards 5:43 and one we pass it, we use the next 5:43 as a target.

Yes exactly, which is why I said you may be overthinking it when you were trying to interpret it as anything more than this. The Equinox were a critical time for the calibration of sundials, hence why I chose them.

just because you can’t admit that you heard precession of the equinoxes in the past and misremembered it.

But, why? It would have been perfectly valid to bring up in the original context - you yourself brought up the complicating factor of minor celestial events in it’s applicability to - and “progression towards the equinox” is a fine-if-slightly-florid way to describe the passage of time towards a significant event. There’s no reason for me to have done that.