Tag: clocks

  • 60 Days: Temple Bells

    60 Days: Temple Bells

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    Erik St.Andrew Moe
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    Yesterday I dropped a quote about the traditional Japanese time system. I was curious to learn more. The system splits a day in to six units of daylight and six units of night: The typical clock had six numbered hours from nine to four, which counted backwards from noon until midnight; the hour numbers one,…

  • 61 Days: Workday

    61 Days: Workday

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    Erik St.Andrew Moe
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    “On this day in 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed into law the Adamson Act, which established an eight-hour workday, with additional pay for overtime work, for railroad workers.” —The Opportunity Agenda “…as late as a century and a half ago [from 1995] the Japanese day was not divided into twenty-four hours. Instead it was broken…