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The use of 60 minutes in an hour and 60 seconds in a minute didn’t come into everyday use until the invention of mechanical clocks in the 16th century.
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Notice how easily you can count them using your thumbs, something you should be comfortable with in these days of thumb-manipulated mobile phones. One possible reason for using 12 is that it’s the number of segments we have separated by knuckles on the four fingers of each hand. But did you know that if the French had their way back in the 1890s when they tried to introduce decimal time, you’d be counting to a different beat? Did you know the Chinese have used decimal time for millennia? And did you know that you may have unknowingly used it already if you’ve programmed in Linux? Read on to see what decimal time is along with the answers to these questions.īabylonian numerals, By Jose117, via Wikimedia CommonsFirst off, just why do we have 60 seconds, 60 minutes and 24 hours in a day? The 24 hour day started with the Egyptians breaking the number of daylight hours into 12.
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If you’re like me, you count this time in your head and then check how in sync you are. Many stop lights at street intersections display a countdown of the remaining seconds before the light changes.