Who, how and when decided to count to a second and was like “Yup. This is it. This is a second. This is how long a second is. Everybody on Earth will universally agree that this is how long a second is and use it regardless of culture, origin, intelligence or beliefs”?
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Go back far enough and an hour wasn’t a consistent length. Romans divided daytime into 12 hours, so a winter hour was shorter than a summer one.
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