2007-01-02 09:06:17 · 5 answers · asked by poohtrusttigger 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
Did a person decide that? I thought 12 hours was the halfway point of they day no matter if anybody "decided" it or not. Anyway, it's only divided evenly on 2 days of the year. All the rest of the time, it is lopsided.
2007-01-02 09:21:20 · answer #1 · answered by Jack 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The entity (or physics for those atheists) that decided that the earth goes around the sun in a specific amount of time.
The rest is all semantics, physics and math.
2007-01-02 10:01:00 · answer #2 · answered by swulfson 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it was common sense...
Perhaps the people just knew, somehow, that it must've been 12 AM to 12 PM..
All the world uses that same timeline.. Ask them..
2007-01-02 09:41:18 · answer #3 · answered by Spectrum 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
probably the Sumarians, and through them to the Assryians/Babylonians...through them to the Hebrews, Egyptians, Canaanites...on through to the Greeks and Romans...
the "thinking" goes somewhat like this...
the first [western world] astronomers/astrologer determined that:
there are 12 signs of the zodiac....so..the world processed through them both day and night...12 divisions for each...
2007-01-02 10:26:26 · answer #4 · answered by Gemelli2 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
haha i've always wondered the same thing!!
2007-01-02 09:56:00 · answer #5 · answered by xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋