Tuesday, July 11, 2006 . 11:21 AM
Why do we only have 24 hrs a day?
Why do we only have 7 days a week?
Wat makes a week? 7 days? Y 7??
Why can't we have 4 weekdays and 3 weekends?
Y can't a week be like 14 days, 7 weekdays and 7 weekends?
I don like it. Who made things like that?!!!
A search in Wikipedia provided the interesting article, n many other links to other things like gregorian calender etc...A week is a unit of time longer than a day and shorter than a month. In most modern calendars, including the Gregorian calendar, the week is a period of seven days. Although having no direct astronomical basis, it is widely used as a unit of time, especially in the social and commercial context.
Another interesting fact :
week = 7 days = 168 hours = 10,080 minutes = 604,800 seconds (except at daylight saving time transitions or leap seconds)
WOW not only we have leap year, we have leap seconds!
Origins of 7-day week
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week
please read urself for more info if your interested. How different culture came to accept the 7 days week.
And let me quote:The Hebrew and therefore Christian 7 day week corresponds to the creation of earth in 6 days and the seventh being a day of rest.
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.Various groups of citizens of the Roman Empire adopted the week, especially those who had spent time in the eastern parts of the empire, such as Egypt, where the 7-day week was in use. Contemporaneously, Christians, following the biblical instruction, spread the week's use along with their religion.
As the early Christians evolved from being Jewish to being a distinct group, various groups evolved from celebrating both the Jewish Sabbath (Saturday) and the first day or the Lord's Day (Sunday), to celebrating only Sunday. See: Sabbath (Christian); Shabbat (Jewish).
So i guessed i got my answer :p... but wouldn't it be betta if God gave us a 14day week? 7 weekdays, 7 weekends hee....
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