YICHM@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 9 days agoThe use of lunar calendar might be the reason why days start at midnight.message-squaremessage-square6fedilinkarrow-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 · 9 days agomessage-square6fedilink
minus-squaregivesomefucks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·9 days 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.