Hang on a second

So let me get this straight. We have 24 hours to the day, twelve for night and twelve for daylight, because the Babylonians preferred a duodecimal system. We have 60 minutes to the hour and 60 seconds to the minute because the day was subdivided sexagesimally. We have seven days to the week because Bablyonian astronomers named one day each for the visible planets (and their attendant gods) Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn and one each for the Moon and the Sun, and the names of our days still show that, though in some languages more than in others. The month, too, was invented in Mesopotamia (although counting time in relation to the phases of the moon is probably a lot older).

The way we measure our time in this world stems from Bronze age Mesopotamia, and is over 5000 years old.

And then look what happened.

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