Still in the 80’s-had to have the a/c on in car when I went for groceries.
SUPER SPEED WEEKS ’94 PAPER NASCAR RACING
NOW IT’S TIME FOR JAMIE FRASER:
BUSH CLASH 1995 OFFICAL RACE POSTER DAYTONA BEACH with EARNHARDT/GORD
So how’s the DAYLIGHT SAVINGS ADJUSTMENT coming. I thought we could look a little more about our time.
AND YOU THOUGHT DAYLIGHT SAVINGS WAS BAD:
in 1752 Britain and it’s American Colonies lost 11 days (September 3 -14) when Britain changed to the Georgian calendar. There was even riots at the time in protest of the “stolen” days.
Calendars go back to ancient times and were based on lunar cycles (months were 29 or 30 days) and the Hebrew (adopted from the Babylonians–who also had 12 hour days) calendar year had 354 days.
The Egyptians developed a sun-cycle calendar with 365 days and this more scientific calendar was eventually adopted by Julius Caesar in 46 BC for Rome and thus most of the European world.
AND IT USE TO BE MUCH MORE CONFUSING:
A fragment of a Celtic bronze tablet found in 1897 from the last century AD in Burgandy showed that the Celts had lunar months with the previously noted 29 or 30 days. But these days were counted (as the Jews and Moslems also did) from moon-rise to moon-rise with the days thus varying in the number of hours they contained. And their year was again 354 day, which caused a problem as the earth took 365 days to form a year which would result in months coming at different times in the season every year.
In Wales before the Catholic Church introduced a standard time the day cycle was divided into 8 tides (3 hrs. each): Dewaint (midnight); Pylgeint (dawn); Bore (morning); Anterth (vapourlessness); Nawn (noon); Echwydd (rest) Huyr or Gwechwydd (evening and Ucher (shadow).
On the continent the Celtic year had two halves beginning at Samhain (Nov. 1) which marked the end of the grazing season and the summer half began at Beltane (May 1) when cattle were driven through the smoke of a bonfire to magically protect them as the grazed. In Ireland there were two further divisions Imbolic (2/1) and Lughnasa (8/1) as well as solstices and equinoxes which marked an 8 fold division.
AND THEN THERE WAS AD AND BC:
It is from the very first British historian the Venerable (ancient and worthy) Bede an Anglo-Saxon Monk that we appear to have started marking our years before and after Christ. Previously the Roman’s based their system on the accession of each successive emperor. but Bede (725 AD/Reckoning of Time) called it a pagan system and suggested that the new Christian era might be better served by dating it from Christ’s birth.
The Julian calendar (reformed by Caesar in 45 BC) with a leap year to keep the calendar in pace with the sun and a month of July (guess who that was named after) was still the existing calendar at that time.
To this day our Calendar shows many of these previous influences with Sunday/the sun, Monday/the moon and Tiw’s day, Woden’s day, Thor’s-day and Freya’s day the last four all named after Germanic gods of war, wisdom, thunder and love. The Roman’s contributed Saturn’s day and the Anglo-Saxon goddess of dawn and fertility Eastre is remembered at Easter. The seven day week was introduced into Ireland by Chrisitianity.
SOURCES:
Herm, Gerhard, THE CELTS
Kirchner, Walther, WESTERN CIVILIZATION TO 1500
Lacey, Robert, GREAT TALES FROM ENGLISH HISTORY
O’hOgain, Daithi, THE LORE OF IRELAND
Pennick, Nigel, CELTIC SACRED LANDSCAPES
Reader’s Digest: STRANGE STORIES, AMAZING FACT
1968 ROBERT F. KENNEDY Campaign Post Card with repo Signature
