An ittoki, a date, a plan to meet. This shelf explores the conventions behind everyday time at three scales.
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Six divisions for daylight, and six for night. How did Japanese clocks keep time when the units stretched and shrank with the seasons?
In Meiji-era Japan, the day after the second of the twelfth month became January 1. Place the old and new calendars on the same timeline, and you can see what jumped ahead and what continued uninterrupted.
You hear the same Japanese word, yet mark different days on your calendars. Dialect records help reveal a misunderstanding hidden inside an apparently clear arrangement.
East of the standard meridian, solar noon comes earlier. Yet even in Akashi, it does not always fall at 12:00. Separate the difference due to place from the difference due to date to untangle the relationship between clocks and the Sun.
2000 had a February 29, but 2100 will not. Count how the 97 leap days are distributed across 400 years, and a calendar rule that seems full of exceptions becomes a single calculation.