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

  • @[email protected]
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    217 hours ago

    Didn’t the Egyptians figure it out? Or someone before them was like “SHADOWS! SHADOWS THEN! SHADOWS NOW!”

    • @marcos
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      317 hours 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        116 hours ago

        omg the babylonians, fielded the best footie team in all of existence, except for other examples.

      • @someguy3OP
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        016 hours ago

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