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

• HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?

  source

  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

    source

    • HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

      source
• unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

  source

  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

    source

    • 0ops@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

      source
    • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

      source
    • unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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

      source