SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: International Meridian Conference, Hebrew Calendar, Leap Year

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: Best Joel

Document Summary

Mayan is important because their calandar runs on. Baktuns- a new cycle starts after 13: this diversity has been replaced by global agreement, royal observatory- international date line location, royal mail coach- delivered letters around england at certain times in each place, trains changed everything. Suddenly being on the same time mattered. Sun travels across the sky so time changes: standard tie zones in the us began in 1883, royal prime meridians. International meridian conference (1884: said they need just 1 so maps can be made, it was set in grenetch in london. This established basic time zones and the international date line: constantine the great convened council of nicea, separated easter from the jewish calendar, french revolution linked to the enlightenment, new science, led to metric system. Based off of incraments of ten, and became universal: 3 places don"t use it, less successful was france"s effort to rationalize time- a calendar with.