• ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    Thank colonialism

    Imagine we determined seasons based on the birds flying into a meadow in Japan

    Or we measured days in quarters like Thailand (France forced their neighbours to use 24h time but since Thailand…then Ayutthaya and later Siam were never colonized they kept their weird clocks)

    Russia never adopted leap years so that’s why Russian New Year is at a different time than the rest of us