WHAT DEFINES A DAY?

Posted by maw2214 On Thursday, March 22, 2012 0 comments
WHAT DEFINES A DAY?

For early peoples, the only changes that were truly regular, were the motion of the objects in the sky. The obvious of these changes was the alternate daylight and darkness, caused by the rising  and setting of the sun. Each of these cycles of the sun came to be called a day. Another regular change in the sky was the change in the visible shape of the moon . Each cycle of the moon's changing shape takes about 291/2 days, or a month. The cycle of the seasons  gave people and even longer unit of time. There is no longer change in the sky that lasts seven days, to represent the week. The seven-day week jewish custom of observing a sabbath (day of rest) every seventh day. The division of a day into 24 hours , an hour into 60 minutes, and a minute into 60 seconds probably came from ancient babylonians.






                               FACT FILE                
Some clock faces are divided into 24 hours. On such a clock, 9 a.m.
 would be shown as 0900 and 4 pm would be 1600. this system avoids
confusion between the morning and evening hours.
         Digital Clock 6:00 Clip Art       

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