1. Who determined how long an hour should be? Why did they determine to create an hour way shorter then how long day and night are or how long mourning, noon, evening, night, and midnight are? ^^Shouldnt there just be 2 even hours or 5 uneven hours? 2. And who determined how long a month should be? Why did they determine to creat a month 29-31 days? ^^Shouldnt there just be 4 months based on the 4 seasons or 1 month based on the full 365 days? 3. And so if it all spread so evenly over the globe about the length of an hour and etc, then how come one language didn't spread also? Like how on earth could what an hour is even be taught if not spoken in the same one language? My two cents: In the bible the character Jesus plainly labeled that hour that day. Meaning, the opposite would be this hour this night. Meaning, their should be just 2 hours. One for day, one for night. Jesus did question are there not 12 hours in a day somewhere in the gospel. Notice Jesus had that in question form, not answer form. And notice Jesus seperated day from night just as it was stated to be seperate in Genesis. We currently say their are 24 hours in a day without seperating the day from the night... Such goes against Genesis and Jesus surely. Jesus never used these months we use currently by name. No, you read names for seasons (winter and summer). Hell, you dont even see spring or fall used. So there should just be winter and summer. In Revelation the whole lukewarm thing was rejected. I take it the man made added inbewteen things such as spring and fall are as lukewarm things we should reject. If lukewarm is used as a metaphor to imply anything inbetween we should avoid. As for language, it's just one language on the globe with a big list of synonyms where a particular region or ppl uses certain different words from another region or ppl. It's just that the word, whichever they chosen, have the same meaning. It's just like a certain race in America uses certain words another race in America wouldnt normally use. And this other race would use a different word with the same meaning instead.
1. The hour was probably coined by an astonomer that realized the cycle that coincides with the rotation of the Earth. 2. The year was also probably coined by the astronomer that realized that there was a relation between the changing of the seasons and the revolution of the Earth around the Sun. They probably then split this cycle into months , assigning roughly 3 months to each season. This probably also had something to do with the calenders of the ancient Sumarians. Everything they did was based on 60. Seconds in a minute and minutes in an hour and some susoect a 360 day calender.This is where the concept of days may have come from , as a means to signify solstices and teh equinoxes and birthdays , first rain of teh crop season , and how to tell when the Tigris and Euphrates rivers would flood so they could build more efficient irrigation ditches . And of course religion.
I'm pretty sure the Babylonians came up with the basic concepts of an hour, week, and month. Though, it has changed over time. they had a base-60 number system, which is there are 24 hours in a day, and that is divided into 2 12 hour sections (am and PM), both are multiples of six. They originally had 6, 60 day months. Obviously this left 5 1/4 days out of the calendar, so they would add a leap month every 12 years. over time this has been tweaked, most notably by the Romans and pope gregory, into the calendar we have today. As for why it spread, i suspect the railroads (few people realize that before the railroads became widespread, there was no such thing as a 'correct' time, your bank could have a clock that says 12:30, while your dentist could have one that said 1:15, there was no standard until the railroads came through and needed to coordinate.)
