Stop Time It’s Slavery

Have you ever wondered about what’s behind those ticking clocks or the days neatly organized on your calendar?

It turns out, moments are pivot points of very brief momentous periods of time in our lives, making us slaves to time to a greater or lesser degree. There are rare exceptions to this but yes the majority of us are indeed slaves to Time.

Times are a more or less definite periods into the future; present, or past. While, categorization of the past into quantified named blocks of time is called periodization of Periods and Eras.

Whereby, Period is a large interval of time with a definite characteristic, whereas, Era is a long period of time marking the start and end of a fixed point in time from which a series of years of important event is reckoned.

Since long, man has used clocks and watches to measure time. It is not only necessary for a clock to be accurate, but also to be precise.

Daylight saving time, also referred to as daylight saving, daylight savings time, daylight time, or summer time, is the practice of advancing clocks to make better use of the longer daylight available during summer so that darkness falls at a later clock time.

Calendars meanwhile are based on the course of the Sun and the Moon are the most salient regularly recurring natural events useful for timekeeping.

Throughout history, different cultures have used various tools to measure time: oil lamps, candle clocks, water clocks, hourglasses and so on. Finally, mechanical clocks replaced these archaic devices and have become extraordinarily precise timekeepers.

The calendar evolution meanwhile has been extreme dating back to ancient civilizations and developing into today's sophisticated systems.

Calendars have been used by various civilizations over millennia to organize time for social, religious, agricultural, and administrative purposes.

Archaeologists at G?bekli Tepe, Turkey, have discovered the world's oldest calendar, dating back nearly 13,000 years. Hittite text carvings on stone pillars in Kane? (Kültepe) or Ne?a (Nesha) an archaeological site in Kayseri Province, Türkiye (Turkey) revealed a sophisticated solar-lunar calendar, possibly created to track time and Celestial events, including a comet strike around 10,850 BC.

Today, there are six principal calendars in current use, the Gregorian, Jewish, Islamic, Indian, Chinese, and Julian Calendars, that fall into four types: lunisolar, solar, lunar and seasoMost pre-modern calendars were lunisolar.

Since there is an 11-day difference between the solar and lunar year, every 2-3 years a 13th month must be added to keep the seasons aligned. The Jews call this month “Adar II.” The Bible does not mention a 13th month.

The seasonal calendars meanwhile rely on changes in the environment rather than lunar or solar observations. Despite of which, variance arise due to the difference between actual numbers of days in each month being either 28, 30, or 31 days during a common year, which has 365 days, and during leap years, which occur nearly every 4 years, we add an extra (intercalary) day, Leap Day, on 29 February, making leap years 366 days long.

Calendars tend to line up every 6 years, or 11 years. The exception is Leap Years, when it takes 28.

That said, more than a billion years ago, a day on Earth lasted 19 hours, rather than the 24-hour period we know today, according to a study of ancient rock samples from southwest China. Between 1 billion and 2 billion years ago, days were shorter than they are now because the Earth's natural satellite – the moon – was closer.

During the late Cretaceous period (circa 145 – 66 million years ago) the last of the three Periods of the Mesozoic Era, years were 372 days long and days were 23 and a half hours long rather than 24 hours long.

Millions of years later, the current de facto Calendar in use around the world is the perpetual Gregorian calendar. It is expected to gain a day in roughly 3300 years, which would require making 3200 a regular year.

By then, neither Earth's rotation and orbit will be stable enough to predict... nor would our enslavement...

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Food for thought!