Normally idioms are language specific, but number of hours and days are the same.

  • @marcos@lemmy.world
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    142 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.

    • @HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee
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      22 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
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        12 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.

        • @HandwovenConsensus@lemm.ee
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          22 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.

      • @marcos@lemmy.world
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        42 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
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          12 months ago

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

        • BarqsHasBiteOP
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          02 months ago

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