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> In a capitalist society, “Time is money.”

Here in Eastern Europe, this saying was probably more popular in the communist era than it is now.

Bolsheviks sure loved messing with time. Russia had kept using Julian calendar, and one of the first things Bolsheviks did, just about three months after gaining power, was to drop February 1-13 1918 to align with the rest of the world. That was not enough, and they started experimenting with five- and six-day weeks and kept doing so until 1940 when they reverted to traditional ways, likely because war was obviously approaching.

Orthodox Church still sort of uses Julian calendar; also, quite a lot of people in Russia and elsewhere in Eastern Europe celebrate «Old New Year» on January 14 just because they can.

INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

Great remark. All numbers are created by men. It is hard to tell people, especially the experts, that they are relying on something man-made when they get their numbers out. How much may you weigh? How much sugar can you eat? Is this good is that good? One says yes one says no. Only one person can decide what is going on with you, and that is you! How we use our time is our business. (of course if you have to work for a boss, you depend on his time scale or you won't get paid). We are living so unnatural nowadays, it is hard to grasp that once, we lived like the animals in a natural world, getting up with daylight and sleeping when dark. Kinda funny how they skipped a whole week though! Wondering if we will stop the fall back one hour. The govt promised they' stop this craze !

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