A day is how long it takes for the Sun to go around the sky and come back. But not everyone used the same way to measure a ‘day’, some people counted on stars or even firelight! A long time ago, humans watched the Sun move across the sky, and that’s where we got the idea of dividing time into days.
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- A kid watching the sun move across the sky and saying it’s a ‘day’ when it comes back.
- An ancient farmer dividing his work into parts of the day using the sun's position.
- A star-gazing tribe marking time based on how the stars moved in the night sky.
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See also
- How Did the Idea of ‘Time Zones’ Come to Be?
- How Did the Idea of Time Originate in Different Cultures?
- Why Do We Have Leap Years?
- Why Do We Need ‘Time Zones’?
- Why Do We Have ‘Different’ Kinds of Timekeeping Around the World?
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