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http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2011/11/15/3364432.htm http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2011/11/15/3364432.ht... > Our 24-hour day comes from the

by AckSyn 10y ago

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2011/11/15/3364432.htm http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2011/11/15/3364432.ht... > Our 24-hour day comes from the ancient Egyptians who divided day-time into 10 hours they measured with devices such as shadow clocks, and added a twilight hour at the beginning and another one at the end of the day-time, says Lomb. "Night-time was divided in 12 hours, based on the observations of stars and https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-time-division-days-hours-minutes/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-time-divi... If you had such huge issues, google was a quick fix for them.

ajmurmann 10y ago
Are you kidding me? I know it comes from the ancient Egyptians. That's not a fix, that's an explanation and it's an explanation that makes it even worse. It's the equivalent of a conversation that goes like this: A: Why do you guys have these weird variable names in your code that you touch every day? B: Well, the company was started in the 70s by a bunch of Egyptians who named their variables in Egyptian. A: But they are all gone now, right and nobody here speaks Egyptian anymore? B: Yeah. A: Why did you never rename it? This stuff makes it really hard to ramp up. B: *shrug* Only that this happened 2000+ years ago! Plenty of time to refactor that shit. It's even worse if you look at the purposefully broken month names. September to December are named "7th" to "10th". However, some arrogant pricks decided to inject their own names as months in between and couldn't even bother fixing the months whose names they now broke. And nobody bothered in the meantime to go back and fix it. It's 2000 years later and instead of fixing it we coerced most of mankind into using this obviously broken piece of crap. EDIT: Formatting

by AckSyn 10y ago

ajmurmann 10y ago

Are you kidding me? I know it comes from the ancient Egyptians. That's not a fix, that's an explanation and it's an explanation that makes it even worse. It's the equivalent of a conversation that goes like this: A: Why do you guys have these weird variable names in your code that you touch every day? B: Well, the company was started in the 70s by a bunch of Egyptians who named their variables in Egyptian. A: But they are all gone now, right and nobody here speaks Egyptian anymore? B: Yeah. A: Why did you never rename it? This stuff makes it really hard to ramp up. B: *shrug* Only that this happened 2000+ years ago! Plenty of time to refactor that shit. It's even worse if you look at the purposefully broken month names. September to December are named "7th" to "10th". However, some arrogant pricks decided to inject their own names as months in between and couldn't even bother fixing the months whose names they now broke. And nobody bothered in the meantime to go back and fix it. It's 2000 years later and instead of fixing it we coerced most of mankind into using this obviously broken piece of crap. EDIT: Formatting