The Unfortunate Timing of Time - (For Mon Sept 21st)

The time has come!

I've honestly never really thought about time too seriously. We learn about the four seasons, the 12 months, the 12 hours. I simply accepted the information for the way it is. What I find more fascinating is that the day and night were seen as two separate entities. So as the total amount of hours of daylight changed, so did the length of the hour. I find it would be incredibly confusing trying to keep track of the 12 hours of the day, but having the length of each hour change throughout the season. Did the people of older times precisely understand the time of the day, and intuitively understand the length of the hour as it changed throughout the season , or did they just accept this way of time because laymen didn't keep track of it very precisely? Simply divide the day into 12 equal parts, and that's how the hours pass. I suppose there is the advantage that 6 hours into the day is always the middle of the day, always at the apex of the sun. At that point I think I would just have the understanding that it's either the morning, close to the 6 hour mark, close to after the 6 hour mark, and then close or the end of the day. Perhaps that's why we divided up days so simply, it's either the morning, afternoon, or evening, which follows my idea if you are to choose the 6 hour mark to be noon. I am really fascinated by the water clock, mostly because it kept track of time so accurately and throughout all times, even at night. People of today's age, at least our society, have a deep connection to the accuracy of time. We keep track of the majority of events down to the minute. Class starts on time, it has a fixed amount of time, we have a fixed time between our next class, assignments are due at specific times, exams are times, etc. Thus as someone from today's age I am dawn immediately to the accuracy of the water clock. I'm sure the designers of such clock also had a deep interest in keeping track of time, but I imagine the majority of people cared not for it's design and purpose. I would go even further to say that I the majority of people rejected the idea outright. Looking back at history there was a huge pushback by humans against the imposition of clocks and standardized time. It's fascinating how time became to be the way it is, but perhaps human's would be happier if time was never standardized.

Well anyway, the time has come, my little friends, to talk of other things!