Arigion comments on I think that guy was eating the glue

[–] Arigion@feddit.de 12 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Wait until you hear about traditional Japanese timekeeping, where the hours had different lengths throughout the year, depending on daylight: https://youtu.be/1BJmnEa6YGE

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[–] hglman@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 years ago

The Greeks also had variable length hours, and early water clocks attempted to adjust automatically over the year.

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[–] Interesting_Test_814@jlai.lu 1 point 3 years ago

https://xkcd.com/2542/

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