I'll be there in a "punct" (and other weird time terms)
10 Little-Known Units of Time
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Other interesting links on time:
- Atom: about 1/6th Of A Second
- Ghurry: 24 Minutes
- Lustre: A Period Of Five Years
- Mileway: Amount Time It Takes To Walk One Mile (20 minutes)
- Nundine: A Period Of Nine Days
- Punct: In Medieval Europe A Punct Was A Quarter Of An Hour
- Quadrant: A Period Of Exactly Six Hours
- Quinzième: a period of 15 days
- Scruple: In the early 17th century scruple also came to be used as another name for 1/60th of a degree of a circle (i.e. one minute), 1/60th of a minute (i.e. one second), and 1/60th of a day (i.e. 24 minutes).
What Is Greenwich Mean Time?
Decimal Time: How the French Made a 10-Hour Day
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