| ▲ | ayaros 2 hours ago | |||||||
I'm curious, are there any other notable time measurement systems other than the ones listed here? | ||||||||
| ▲ | helterskelter an hour ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
You used to look at the sun or stars to make an estimate, then we had sundials. For larger time scales, there are tons of archaelogical sites around the world which tracked the solstice, equinox, etc and there's evidence that a few cultures even tracked the full period of the moon's orbit (18.6y). ~250BCE, there was a comedy by Plautus which had in it a poem lamenting the proliferation of sundials, which may or may not have been a parody of some of the attitudes at the time: | ||||||||
| ▲ | InsideOutSanta an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||
Swatch Internet Time was almost kind of a thing in the late 90s. | ||||||||
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| ▲ | ginko 36 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||
There's for instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_timekeepin... | ||||||||
| ▲ | Joel_Mckay 44 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
Yes, people make up silly things for silly reasons all the time. All core systems should run on 64bit UTC posix Epoch date-time stamps, and abstract that into whatever ISO 8601 format local communities think is effective policy. If finer granularity is required to recreate events in non-real-time analysis, than additional sampling interval data with event ordering indexes become relevant. The Metrology around how a Second was (re)defined is actually really interesting. Considering it started as an arbitrary interval originally derived from some dudes heartbeat. =3 https://www.nist.gov/atomic-clocks/how-atomic-clocks-work/cl... | ||||||||