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Your professor was just wrong if they claimed time was a Western construct. Calendars, sundials, and other time keeping devices were created independently aroun
by nitwit005 1y ago
Your professor was just wrong if they claimed time was a Western construct. Calendars, sundials, and other time keeping devices were created independently around the world.
All you need to create a clock is realize that your oil lamp consumes its fuel in a somewhat consistent interval, or a similar observation for the time it takes drips of water to fill a cup. People figured it out.
- bawolff 1y agoI don't know how other cultures viewed time, but i think there is a big difference between being able to make a clock and running your life by a clock. Modern industrialized society is very regimented - work starts at an exact time, ends at an exact time, lunch is exactly an hour, etc. I suspect such notions would be much less useful in a non-industrial society.
- nitwit005 1y agoThe utility of an idea is not the idea itself.