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Why We Keep Things We Never Use & The Reason We Keep Track of Time

Something You Should Know

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What's the Difference Between Days and Months?

For most of human history, time was a very local thing. We all kind of knew when the sun came up and the sun went down. But that didn't really matter to anybody because nobody could go far enough for there to be a significant difference in what time it was. Most cultures have sort of a a 12 or 13 month calendar of some sort. The seven day week is a western thing, that comes out of judaism in christianity.

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