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Why Do We Divide the Day Into Seconds, Minutes, and Hours?

→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmat→“is it snack time”. The reality is, even though we’ve decided that there is a need to divide up time, the actual process and the way we go about it has been changing for millennia. The cruel irony is that even though we know we need to measure time, there has never been a consensus on what time really is. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/08/why-we-divide-the-day-into-seconds-minutes-and-hours/ Sources: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=experts-time-division-days-hours-minutes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escapement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hour http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minute http://allwomenstalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Clock.jpg

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  • Originally Aired December 23, 2016
  • Runtime 4 minutes
  • Production Code sD-8DyP7KDk
  • Created September 18, 2020 by
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