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

  • @marcos
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    43 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      13 months ago

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

    • @someguy3OP
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      03 months ago

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