On 27 Dec 2006 at 20:57, John Cowan wrote:
> Very true. And adopting the Egyptian-Roman calendar redefined
> the concept of a "month". Somehow civilization survived.
Keeping months in sync with phases of the moon apparently turned out
to be insufficiently important to civilization to require it as a
feature of the calendar. I'm doubtful that keeping clocks in
approximate sync with the rising and setting of the sun is likely to
be judged equally unimportant, however.
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