Here in america... we have days, weeks, months etc.

24 hours in a day.
7 days in a week
roughly 30 days in a month.
12 months in a year.


I can't help but wonder if other countries uses this same method of measurement. Anyone know of other countries that use something diffrent and what they use?

 

time is universally used.

 

yes, they all use the same system. it sounds random, but this system has its roots over 5,000 years old.

 

time, waits for no one or thing

 

actually, our calender was developed around 900AD by some priest named Gregory - hence Gregorian calender.

different religions have different months. but in the secular world, we all use the Gregorian calender.

 

Actually all he did was modify the Julian calendar, put into use by Julius Caesar, hence the name. The Julian calendar didn't have leap years, so by 900 AD or whenever Pope Gregory got involved, the calendar had gotten a few weeks out of whack. So the Pope cancelled a few weeks and instituted the leap-year to keep things correct.

 

and the julius calendar is based off even older stuff

the egyptians had a close one based on the star sirius, but it would go out of whack, but instead of fixing it, they figured out it would take 1,460 years to correct itself, and they just let it go.

 

Different religions and countries use different forms of months and years, but the bottom line is our second, minute, hour, day, week, month and year, is all designed around our planets rotation and orbit around the Sun.

The reason it gets "off" is because it doesn't take us quite 24 hours to rotate...

 

Yah, I knew Caesar didn't make it up hisself. Didn't know that about the Egyptian calendar. Thats pretty cool that they figured out it would just correct itself. They were pretty good at math I guess.

 

I guess what I more getting at is if some other country has like 8 day weeks or 4 day weeks or weeks at all.

Sure there's (about) 24 hours in a day... but do some places measure it in something else and come up with like 30 units in a day or something.

Or does everyone use the same calendar?