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  2. Planetary hours - Wikipedia

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    As each day is divided into 24 hours, the first hour of a day is ruled by the planet three places down in the Chaldean order from the planet ruling the first hour of the preceding day; [2] i.e. a day with its first hour ruled by the Sun ("Sunday") is followed by a day with its first hour ruled by the Moon ("Monday"), followed by Mars ("Tuesday ...

  3. Babylonian astronomy - Wikipedia

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    Babylonian astronomy was the study or recording of celestial objects during the early history of Mesopotamia. The numeral system used, sexagesimal, was based on sixty, as opposed to ten in the modern decimal system. This system simplified the calculating and recording of unusually great and small numbers. [1]

  4. Hours of service - Wikipedia

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    The weekly maximum was limited to 60 hours over 7 days (non-daily drivers), or 70 hours over 8 days (daily drivers). These rules allowed for 12 hours of work within a 15-hour period, 9 hours of rest, with 3 hours for breaks within a 24-hour day.

  5. Sexagesimal - Wikipedia

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    Sexagesimal, also known as base 60, [1] is a numeral system with sixty as its base. It originated with the ancient Sumerians in the 3rd millennium BC, was passed down to the ancient Babylonians, and is still used—in a modified form—for measuring time, angles, and geographic coordinates. The number 60, a superior highly composite number, has ...

  6. Military designation of days and hours - Wikipedia

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    H-Hour. The specific time at which an operation or exercise commences, or is due to commence (this term is used also as a reference for the designation of days/hours before or after the event). (NATO); also known as 'Zero Hour'. I-Day. Used informally within the U.S. military bureaucracy to variously designate the "Implementation Day" or the ...

  7. Carnegie Unit and Student Hour - Wikipedia

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    A semester (one-half of a full year) earns 1/2 a Carnegie Unit. [1] The Student Hour is approximately 12 hours of class or contact time, approximately 1/10 of the Carnegie Unit (as explained below). As it is used today, a Student Hour is the equivalent of one hour (50 minutes) of lecture time for a single student per week over the course of a ...

  8. Doomsday rule - Wikipedia

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    The Doomsday rule, Doomsday algorithm or Doomsday method is an algorithm of determination of the day of the week for a given date. It provides a perpetual calendar because the Gregorian calendar moves in cycles of 400 years. The algorithm for mental calculation was devised by John Conway in 1973, [1][2] drawing inspiration from Lewis Carroll 's ...

  9. Leap second - Wikipedia

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    Graph showing the difference between UT1 and UTC. Vertical segments correspond to leap seconds. In about AD 140, Ptolemy, the Alexandrian astronomer, sexagesimally subdivided both the mean solar day and the true solar day to at least six places after the sexagesimal point, and he used simple fractions of both the equinoctial hour and the seasonal hour, none of which resemble the modern second. [8]

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