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Dividing our time into minutes and hours dates back to the Mesopotamian era. It wasn't until 1884 that there was an international agreement about how many hours there were in a day.
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Available for over a year
Dividing our time into minutes and hours dates back to the Mesopotamian era. It wasn't until 1884 that there was an international agreement about how many hours there were in a day.
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