How do we know how long a second is?

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Is it something we just made up? Or is it something that was discovered?

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Our current time system was derived a long time ago by Societies that uses base 12 math. They used certain astronomical events as a basis for time and divided it up. Because it’s base 12, that’s why it’s odd amounts like 60 or 24.

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