Slightly off topic for today’s #WritersCoffeeClub question, but I had a lot of fun researching different time keeping methods across the ages. The Roman idea of 12hrs of day and 12hrs of night despite the fluctuating lengths of daylight across the year seems utterly bizarre.
What I do like in some old calendars is the idea of a leap month when everything got really out of kilter. I put that in my WIP and called that month the Wandering Moon.
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