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

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

Document Summary

Calendar: julius caesar named the months. Main point: time can be measured in different ways. Understanding time was an early form of knowledge. People: constantine the great determined when easter was, gregory xiii, corrected the leap year to keep the calendar straight, 97 leap years in 400 years. Mayan civilization: world was to end in 2012, baktun (their calendar, count up to 144,000, holy men calculated it so to them it must be correct. 1883 congress designed the standard time zones. They were worried that trains on their own local time would collide. International meridian conference 1884: 24 time zones. Time: all k(cid:374)o(cid:449)ledge did(cid:374)"t co(cid:373)e fro(cid:373) church & aristotle. Metric system: distance between north pole and south pole, kilo to mili, thomas jefferson, told the us to use the metric system, o(cid:374)ly 3 cou(cid:374)tries do(cid:374)"t use the metric system, us, burma, liberia.