First, keep in mind that in the 400,000-odd years that Homo sapiens has been around, most people had no use for exact time. Dawn, sunrise, sunset and night were very important, but no cave person ...

Several correspondents recently pointed out how the division of hours into 60 minutes and minutes into 60 seconds (and a full turn into 360 degrees) is almost certainly based on the Sumerians’ very ...

Cultural anthropologists tell us that perceptions of time vary across cultural groups. Some societies are said to be monochronic (focusing on one task at a time) while others are polychronic (engaging ...