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Comment author: TobyBartels 10 March 2015 07:53:55PM 4 points [-]

Wikipedia disagrees: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second#Before_mechanical_clocks

There are a lot of older units of time listed there, but none of them seem to fit.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 10 March 2015 07:57:21PM 3 points [-]

Huh. That's fascinating. I had apparently wrongly assumed that because it had the same division into 60 that it also was as old. Apparently not.

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