Normally idioms are language specific, but number of hours and days are the same.

    • marcos@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I think it was the Babylonians that created the hour/minute/second and a precursor of the meter on the process. It’s high-tech bronze-age innovation, that got hyped-out so much that it took the entire Old-World by storm, so the Egyptians got them too.