To know how we perceive time and how we experience time, it is crucial to have a brief journey to the history of calendars. Everyone uses calendars to keep tabs on significant dates and occasions; calendars would be equal to maps for direction in space. Dates on a calendar are the coordinates of our travel through time.
1.1 A Brief History of Time and Calendars
The cycle of day and night regulated the lives of our ancestors. The story of the calendar begins with the Moon, the Sun, and the Earth, with astronomy. The cycle of the seasons was known to astronomers as the tropical year, and it could be measured accurately. The stages of the Moon measure the lunar month: New Moon, First Quarter, Full Moon, Last Month, ...
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