Hum… I think the week is more widely adopted than the solar year.
But neither is universal. AFAIK, the length of the day is.
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bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 4 weeks ago
Number of days in a week (or the existence of weeks at all) aren’t universal, though. And technically not even hours.
Only the length of the day, year and moon cycle are universal (or earthiversal).
marcos@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Is it? I know some cultures have a traditional lunar calendar, but I didn’t know there were many that didn’t also use the Gregorian calendar for business.
Which cultures have the seven day week without the solar year?
marcos@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
use the Gregorian calendar for business
AKA, to talk to foreigners. Everybody that doesn’t use the Gregorian calendar uses it to talk to foreigners, if that’s the bar, then it’s universal.
HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Well, I only know how it tends to work in China, where the traditional calendar is used for cultural events such as festivals, while the Gregorian calendar is used for just about everything else, including domestic business. I assumed it’s the same in most modern cultures with a different traditional calendar, but maybe I’m wrong.
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Didn’t the Egyptians figure it out? Or someone before them was like “SHADOWS! SHADOWS THEN! SHADOWS NOW!”
marcos@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I think it was the Babylonians that created the hour/minute/second and a precursor of the meter on the process. It’s high-tech bronze-age innovation, that got hyped-out so much that it took the entire Old-World by storm, so the Egyptians got them too.
0ops@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Oh neat, that makes sense given the Babylonians base-60 numbering system
someguy3@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Meter was recent (historically speaking). They defined the circumference of the world as 40,000 km.
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
omg the babylonians, fielded the best footie team in all of existence, except for other examples.
kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Your first point is technically correct, but 24-hour days and 7-day weeks are a de facto global standard at this point in history. There are outliers, like the Javanese 5-day week or the experimental 5-day Soviet calendar, but they are few and far between.
occultist8128@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
kinda surprised someone in lemmy knows about the javanese calendar system a.k.a “weton” :O
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Well now there are two plus me, and this is fantastic content for role playing
lando55@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
How do you feel about frilly toothpicks?