Also the ancient Egyptians through to the Romans; See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12-hour_clock#History_and_use
On Fri, 28 Sep 2018 at 14:17, Eric Scace <[email protected]> wrote: > > Which, if I recall correctly, was the system used in Japan immediately before the adoption of Western time methods. Each day’s interval between sunrise-sunset was divided into a six units… so, in comparison with an absolute scale, the absolute duration of each unit of time varied from day to day and location to location. > > More details here <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_clock>. > > On 2018 Sep 28, at 04:58 , Hal Murray <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > https://xkcd.com/2050/ > > > > A new meaning for rubber seconds. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there.
