why are there only 12 months??

Question

why are there 7 days of the week, 52 weeks in a year, 1000 years in a millenium, etc

why 24 hrs in a day, 60 minutes in an hour, 60 secs. in a minute??

who decides "time"?

Answer 1

Why the Gregorian calender was accepted, I'm not quite sure. A year was determined by the 12 cycles of the moon. I remember reading that after their revolution, the French tried to change to a metric year. Ten months in a year. Ten days in a week. Ten hours in a day. 100 minutes in an hour, and so on. It was so confusing to the people, plus most folks were ticked off, because they only got 1 day off every 10 days instead of 1 out of 7. I can't say I much blame them. Now if there was a 2 day week with a day off each week...... Now you're talking.

Answer 2

there are 12 months because there is 1 year.
there is 7 days in a week because a week consist of 7 days.
there are 52 weeks in a year because a year has 52 weeks, there are 1000 years in a millenium because in a millenium there are 1000 years. a decade has 10 years because 10 years is equal to a decade.
there are 100 years in a century because a century has 100 years..there are 24 hrs in a day because a day is composed of 24 hours..
there are 60 minutes in an hour because an hour has 60 minutes. and there are 60 seconds in a munite because a minute has 60 seconds... what else...

the clock decides what time it is

Answer 3

The first 12 month calendar was the Roman calendar, although it originally consisted of only 10 months. This calendar was short by 61 days so around 713 BC, Numa Pompilius added two months to the end of the calendar. You may never have guessed that those two extra months were January and February. This calendar was still off from the Gregorian calendar that we use today, for one the months only had 29 days in them. After Numa Pompilius changed the calendar there were 355 days in a year, still 10 days off but much better than 61 days off.

In order to keep the seasons from shifting dramatically and confusing the animals there were occasionally leap years, just like ours (sort of). Instead of adding one day in February, an entire month as added. This leap month was known as Mercedonius. For some strange reason during a leap year February (known then as Februarius) was shortened to 23 or 24 days, the leap month began at the end of Februarius.

Answer 4

There really is nothing called "time" it is merely a figment of our collective imaginations. We created this time because we have the inate need to control our environment and the idea that we cannot do such a thing creates immense fear. And thus we created "time."
But if you want to get technical,
One view is that time is part of the fundamental structure of the universe, a dimension in which events occur in sequence, and time itself is something that can be measured
The second, which is the smallest unit is defined as a certain number of hyperfine transitions in Cesium atoms. (big words)
It was the ancient Sumerian astronomers that dictated that the earth rotated on it's axis in 24 hours and that it took 365 days to go around the sun. They had a weird obsession with the number 60 so everything else was pulled together from that.

Answer 5

The year is 365 days 5 hours 48 minutes 46 seconds long or 365.242199 days.
The time between full moons is 29.53 days.
The Ancient Egyptians are credited with the first calendar of 12 months, each consisting of 30 days, comprising a year. They later added 5 days at the end of the year to syncronize somewhat with the solar year.
Everything else falls into this thinking, whether you're talkiing about months weeks year, or day. Who decides time? I'd say the planet does so.

Answer 6

There are approximately 12 full moons a year.

Week comes from the Bible on the 7th day he rested.

24 hours 60 minutes and 60 seconds are from ancient Babylonian math.

Don't they teach anything in grade school anymore?

Answer 7

This is done by international agreements following historical practices, to ensure everybody is on the same timeline. It wasn't always this way and there are still one or two calendars currently which dont comply and have to be adjusted periodically in their particular regions.
eg The 'wetonan cycle' (Javanese calendar) superimposes the five-day pasaran cycle with the seven-day week. Each cycle lasts 35 days, and is named using the week day name and the pasaran day name. In English, either the Javanese or the English names of the week can be used to designate a particular weton, or specific day in the cycle. For example, the seven days following Senin (Monday) Legi are Selasa (Tuesday) Pahing, Rebo (Wednesday) Pon, Kemis (Thursday) Wagé, Jumat (Friday) Kliwon, Setu (Saturday) Legi, Minggu (Sunday) Pahing, and Seni (Monday) Pon. The repetitions of this cycle are regarded similar to months, but do not have fixed starting and ending points.
The Gregorian calendar was proclaimed by Pope Gregory XIII and took effect in most Catholic states in 1582, in which October 4, 1582 of the Julian calendar was followed by October 15 in the new calendar, correcting for the accumulated discrepancy between the Julian calendar and the equinox as of that date. When comparing historical dates, it's important to note that the Gregorian calendar, used universally today in Western countries and in international commerce, was adopted at different times by different countries. Britain and her colonies (including what is now the United States), did not switch to the Gregorian calendar until 1752, when Wednesday 2nd September in the Julian calendar dawned as Thursday the 14th in the Gregorian.

The Bahá'í calendar is a solar calendar organised as a hierarchy of cycles, each of length 19, commemorating the 19 year period between the 1844 proclamation of the Báb in Shiraz and the revelation by Bahá'u'lláh in 1863. Days are named in a cycle of 19 names. Nineteen of these cycles of 19 days, usually called "months" even though they have nothing whatsoever to do with the Moon, make up a year, with a period between the 18th and 19th months referred to as Ayyám-i-Há not considered part of any month; this period is four days in normal years and five days in leap years.

Answer 8

Why not? 12 is a nice number isn't it?

It's just a way for us to measure time so that we can communicate it to other people in a way everyone can understand. There are many other calendars other than the one we use the Mayans had their own calendar and their own ways of communicating time.

Answer 9

Actually I thought that July and August was added to the Roman Calender in order to represent Julius and Augustus Caesar.

Answer 10

Time is determined by how long it takes the moon to go around the earth and the earth to go around the sun.