A History of Time - Seconds, Minutes, Hours, Days & Weeks

Why are there 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day and 7 days in a week? How did the days of the week get their names? Where did the two day weekend come from? Part 2: Months and Years is available NOW exclusively for my patrons: It will go live on Youtube on Tuesday, January 5th, 2021 at 12pm EST. Time, it marches on relentlessly outside of human control. But humanity has long found a variety of ways to mark our passage through the eons. Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years. But why do we count our collective journey through the ages in these integers? A day makes sense, that’s one rotation of the earth on its axis and can easily be marked by the rising and setting of the sun. And a year is one orbit of the earth around the sun, traveling through the 4 seasons again and again. But why 60 seconds in a minute, 24 hours in a day, 7 days in a week and 12 months in a year? Let’s look back through history to learn the varied origins of