YICHM@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 month agoThe use of lunar calendar might be the reason why days start at midnight.message-squaremessage-square6linkfedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down14
arrow-up127arrow-down1message-squareThe use of lunar calendar might be the reason why days start at midnight.YICHM@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 month agomessage-square6linkfedilink
minus-squaregivesomefucks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 month agoThe first way to tell time was the sun dial, and because sunrise varies and starting a day at noon is crazy, they picked the opposite of noon even tho there was no timekeeping mechanism that would ever read midnight.
The first way to tell time was the sun dial, and because sunrise varies and starting a day at noon is crazy, they picked the opposite of noon even tho there was no timekeeping mechanism that would ever read midnight.