Re: measuring time

Ray Brown wrote:


>How do these people count? In tens, by dozens, in twenties or what? Surely
>this would have some baring on how they divided day (and night).
>
The numeral system is in 20, so I could divide in 20 hours.. or 40 hours, 20
before noon, 20 after

I could call those hour by a name create by contractions of the coresponding
number pasted to the word for before/after noon

I have to choose if these divisions should be only for the light time or the
whole sun cycle.


2 questions come to my mind now with that discution:

Did all the cultures of the world noticed that the duration of the day
varies among the year and is not constant?

Did all the cultures noticed that there is a year? There are probably places
where there is no visible variation of seasons


If I think more, is it really important to calculate durations shorter than
a day? A lot of cultures don't care about time. If my people are, as I said,
independant of the rest of the world, caculating time with so much precision
isn't important...


Hey that's hard to create a conlang without a culture behind, a conculture
or the culture of the world for an auxlang, I always have to think if such
word would not be too much linked to my culture to keep only words that
could fit anywhere on the world...

- Max

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