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 agoHum… I think the week is more widely adopted than the solar year.
But neither is universal. AFAIK, the length of the day is.
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
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.
0ops@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Oh neat, that makes sense given the Babylonians base-60 numbering system
someguy3@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Meter was recent (historically speaking). They defined the circumference of the world as 40,000 km.
unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
omg the babylonians, fielded the best footie team in all of existence, except for other examples.
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?
marcos@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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 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.