Comment on Is 24/7 a common idiom throughout the world?

bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• kersploosh@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • occultist8128@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    kinda surprised someone in lemmy knows about the javanese calendar system a.k.a “weton” :O

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    • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well now there are two plus me, and this is fantastic content for role playing

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      • lando55@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        How do you feel about frilly toothpicks?

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• marcos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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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  • HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?

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    • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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      • HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Didn’t the Egyptians figure it out? Or someone before them was like “SHADOWS! SHADOWS THEN! SHADOWS NOW!”

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    • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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      • 0ops@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh neat, that makes sense given the Babylonians base-60 numbering system

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      • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Meter was recent (historically speaking). They defined the circumference of the world as 40,000 km.

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      • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        omg the babylonians, fielded the best footie team in all of existence, except for other examples.

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