where did the names of the days come from , who came up with them ?
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Sunday First day of the week.\nDerived from the Latin dies solis, "sun's day," a pagan Roman holiday. \nMonday Second day of the week.\nDerived from the Anglo-Saxon monandaeg, which means "the moon's day." Latin: dies lunae, "day of the moon."  \nTuesday Third day of the week.\nNamed for the Norse god of war, Tiu, or Tyr, the son of Odin. \nWednesday Fourth day of the week.\nNamed to honor Odin, or Woden, chief god in Norse mythology. Onsdag in Sweden and Denmark. \nThursday Fifth day of the week.\nNamed for Thor, Norse god of thunder. Torsdag in Sweden and Denmark. \nFriday Sixth day of the week. \nNamed for the Norse goddess of love, Frigg, or Frija. Variation of the Old High German frìatag, "day of Frija." \nSaturday Seventh day of the week.\nNamed in honor of the Roman god Saturn. Latin: Saturni. \nSater-daeg by the Anglo-Saxons.
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February used to have 29 days and 30 - in leap years - before Augustus Caesar's ego messed it up.\n\nThe Roman year began in March and February was the 12th month. After June came Quintus (the 5th month) of 31 days and Sextus (the 6th month) of 30 days. Followed by September (the 7th month), Julius Caesar decided to name Quintus after himself and we now know of it as July. \n\nThen when Augustus Caesar became Emperor he decided he would change the name of Sextus and name it after himself. As that would mean his month has one day less than July and imply he was a lesser emperor than Julius Caesar had been, he decreed that August should have 31 days not 30 and he therefore lopped a day off February,\n\nSo your proposal merely seeks to restore us to the calendar as it was prior to Augustus Caesar's interference,\n\nThe Babylonians with their sexagesimal (base-60) counting system which gave the world 360 degrees in a circle, also had 360 days in a year and 12 months of 30 days, Unlike the French solution, they added their extra days in the form of a 13th month, once every 6 years.\n\nThe French Republican calendar was a thorough overhaul of the system, introduced in the context of the world's first metric system, and involved not only 12 30-day months but 3 10-day weeks in a month, 10 hours in a day. 100 minutes in an hour and 100 seconds in a  minute. The months had new names, the year began in the autumn and Year 1 was the date of the Declaration of the French Republic\n\nClocks were built to tell the time by these rules but they did not catch on. Napoleon officially abandoned the calendar on 1st January 1806, after little more than 12 years of use. It briefly resurfaced and re-emerged again at the time of the Paris Commune in 1871, but it has not exactly attracted swarms of advocates before or since.\n\nMy conclusion is that people are set in their ways, see no great pressing need for change and that as there is no exact, mathematically neat solution to the fact that a year is not an exact number of days (nor is a lunar month either) whatever system we use will be a bit inelegant, and acknowledging that, most people would say "let's stick with what we have got. It's easier. Then we don't have to learn anything new."\n\nInertia, apathy and habit will all argue against change, I fear! However logical the change may be.
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The Mayday callsign was originated in 1923 by Frederick Stanley Mockford (1897-1962) [2]. Whilst senior radio officer at Croydon Airport in London, Mockford was asked to think of a word that would indicate distress and would easily be understood by all pilots and ground staff in an emergency. Since much of the traffic at the time was between Croydon and Le Bourget Airport in Paris, he proposed the word "Mayday" from the French m'aider.
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Monday - Named for the day of the moon\nTuesday - Named for Germanic god Tiw.\nWednesday - Named for Norse god of war and wisdom, Woden (Odin).\nThursday - Named for Norse god Thor\nFriday - Named for Norse goddess Frigg\nSaturday - Named for the day of Saturn\n\nThese names are older than you and me..
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Digging into the history of the 7-day week is a very complicated matter. Authorities have very different opinions about the history of the week, and they frequently present their speculations as if they were indisputable facts. The only thing we seem to know for certain about the origin of the 7-day week is that we know nothing for certain.\n\nThe common explanation is that the seven-day week was established as imperial calendar in the late Roman empire and furthered by the Christian church for historical reasons. The British Empire used the seven-day week and spread it worldwide. Today the seven-day week is enforced by global business and media schedules, especially television and banking.\n\nThe first pages of the Bible explain how God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh. This seventh day became the Jewish day of rest, the sabbath, Saturday.\n\nExtra-biblical locations sometimes mentioned as the birthplace of the 7-day week include: Babylon, Persia, and several others. The week was known in Rome before the advent of Christianity.\n\nThere are practical geometrical theories as well. For example, if you wrap a rubber band around 7 soda cans (or any other convenient circular objects). You get a perfect hexagon with the 7th can in the middle. It is the only stable configuration of wrapping more than 3 circular objects. Four, 5, and 6 objects will slip from one configuration to another. Ancients wrapping tent poles, small logs for firewood, or other ciruclar objects might have come upon this number and attach a mystical significance to it.\n\nOne viable theory correlates the seven day week to the seven (astrological) "planets" known to the ancients: Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn. The number seven does not seem an obvious choice to match lunar or solar periods, however. A solar year could be more evenly divided into weeks of 5 days, and the moon phases five-day and six-day weeks make a better short term fit (6 times 5 is 30) to the lunar (synodic) month (of about 29.53 days) than the current week (4 times 7 is 28). The seven-day week may have been chosen because its length approximates one moon phase (one quarter = 29.53 / 4 = 7.3825).\nhttp://webexhibits.org/calendars/week.html\n\nWEEK   \nNext to the day, the week is the most important calendric unit in our life. And yet, there is no astronomical significance to the week. Nothing cosmic happens in the heavens in seven days.* How, then, did the week come to assume such importance? \n\nThe first thing to understand is that a week is not necessarily seven days. In pre-literate societies weeks of 4 to 10 days were observed; those weeks were typically the interval from one market day to the next. Four to 10 days gave farmers enough time to accumulate and transport goods to sell. (The one week that was almost always avoided was the 7-day week -- it was considered unlucky!) The 7-day week was introduced in Rome (where ides, nones, and calends were the vogue) in the first century A.D. by Persian astrology fanatics, not by Christians or Jews. The idea was that there would be a day for the five known planets, plus the sun and the moon, making seven; this was an ancient West Asian idea. However, when Christianity became the official religion of the Roman empire in the time of Constantine (c. 325 A.D.), the familiar Hebrew-Christian week of 7 days, beginning on Sunday, became conflated with the pagan week and took its place in the Julian calendar. Thereafter, it seemed to Christians that the week Rome now observed was seamless with the 7-day week of the Bible -- even though its pagan roots were obvious in the names of the days: Saturn's day, Sun's day, Moon's day. The other days take their equally pagan names in English from a detour into Norse mythology: Tiw's day, Woden's day, Thor's day, and Fria's day. \n\nThe amazing thing is that today the 7-day week, which is widely viewed as being Judeo-Christian, even
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# What's a calendar?\n\n      A calendar is a system for measuring time, from hours and minutes, to months and days, and finally to years and centuries. The terms of hour, day, month, year and century are all units of time measurements of a calender system.\n\n# How does one measure time?\n\n      Distance can be measured with a stick. Time is measured by observing the movements of the sun, moon and stars. People in all major cultures have since discovered this fact since pre-historical time.\n\n# What's a 'Day?'\n\n      Every one knows about the rotation of the Earth about its axis, which causes (apparent) movement of the Sun from East to West across the sky. So we define one cycle of movement of the Sun as one 'Day.'\n      The Chinese word is very straight forward and calls one day as one 'Sun.'\n      More... \n\n# What's a 'Week?'\n\n      The concept of a "week" is less important in the Chinese calendar.\n      The ancient Egyptians had a ten-day week, and so did the Chinese. The ancient Assyrians invented the seven-day week, and the names of days of the week that we use even today are based on a system of assigning the five planets visible to the naked eye, the sun, and the moon to the seven days of the week.\n      More ... \n\n# What's a 'Month?'\n\n      For this we look at the Moon! Each night, the appearance of the Moon changes. From 'new moon' to 'full moon' and back. So we define a 'Month' as the time it takes for the Moon to go through one cycle of motion. As it happens, this takes about 29.5 days. So we round the month to be either 29 days or 30 days.\n      Again, in the Chinese language a month is simply a 'Moon.'\n      The English word "month" is derived from the word "moon." More... \n\n# What about a 'Year?'\n\n      The next larger unit of measurement of time is the 'Year.' For this we go back to the Sun again. Careful observations reveal that the over a period of many months (12), the position of the Sun shifts from very high overhead to a much lower point at Noon time. The length of daylight time also changes from longer to shorter. Even more importantly, the weather changes from hot to cold, giving rise to the four seasons of Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall.\n      It is logical, therefore, to define the length of this time period as a 'Year.'\n      The Chinese word for 'Year' is 'Nian', written as . Since the word 'Sun' has already assigned the meaning of a 'day', a new word has to be used to denote the 'year.' \n\n# How long is a year?\n\n      A little more than 365 days. In 104 B.C. the length of a year was determined to an accuracy of 365.2502 days. By 480 A.D., Ju Chongzhi refined it to 365.2428 days, or 52 seconds more than\n      the modern value of 365.2422 days.\n      To put it another way, in 2,000 years the total discrepancy is less than one day! Together with the voluminous annals of Chinese historians, the Chinese has provided the most accurate and uninterrupted time-line records.\n\n      Although 0.24 day does not look like much, over many years it becomes significant. How do we round it to a whole number of days? There are several different schemes to do this. The Chinese scheme is called the 'lunar calendar', and the nearly standard calendar is called the 'solar' calendar system. \n\n# Chinese Lunar Calendar\n\n      A normal year has 12 lunar months, with the length of lunar month defined above.\n      In order to make up to 365.24 days, an extra month is added during the Leap Year.\n\n# Solar or Western Calendar\n\n      In the Solar Calendar system, a normal year has 365 days. Every 4-th year, an extra day is added in February to make up to 365.25 days. This is called the Leap Year.\n      Each year still has 12 months, but the number of days in each month vary illogically, so the st
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These words come from different root languages and time periods. Check out this Wikipedia link:
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the hours of each day are associated with a planet in descending order, beginning with Saturn. Each day is ruled by its first hour, so the week begins with Saturday. Since there are 24 hours in the day, each day runs through all the planets three times (3x7), with a remainder of three (3x7+3 =24). Thus the first hour of the day following Saturday is ruled by the Sun, and becomes Sunday. Consequently, it is simply an artifact of the sequence of days generated in this way that the planets in ascending order can by read off every other day. \n\nThe ancient Egyptians had a ten-day week, and so did the Chinese. The ancient Assyrians invented the seven-day week, and the names of days of the week that we use even today are based on a system of assigning the five planets visible to the naked eye, the sun, and the moon to the seven days of the week. \n\nsaturn-saturday\nsun- sunday\nmoon-monday\nmars-tuesday\nmercury-wednesday\njupiter-thursday\nvenus-friday\n\nTiu, Woden, Thor, and Freya are used instead of their Roman counterparts, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus.\n\nancient egyptain words were in hyroglyphics, so you'd have to look up the symbols, but these names willhelp you find the symbols
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What Is the Origin of the 7-Day Week?\nDigging into the history of the 7-day week is a very complicated matter. Authorities have very different opinions about the history of the week, and they frequently present their speculations as if they were indisputable facts. The only thing we seem to know for certain about the origin of the 7-day week is that we know nothing for certain.\n\nThe common explanation is that the seven-day week was established as imperial calendar in the late Roman empire and furthered by the Christian church for historical reasons. The British Empire used the seven-day week and spread it worldwide. Today the seven-day week is enforced by global business and media schedules, especially television and banking.\n\nThe first pages of the Bible explain how God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh. This seventh day became the Jewish day of rest, the sabbath, Saturday.\n\nExtra-biblical locations sometimes mentioned as the birthplace of the 7-day week include: Babylon, Persia, and several others. The week was known in Rome before the advent of Christianity.\n\nThere are practical geometrical theories as well. For example, if you wrap a rubber band around 7 soda cans (or any other convenient circular objects). You get a perfect hexagon with the 7th can in the middle. It is the only stable configuration of wrapping more than 3 circular objects. Four, 5, and 6 objects will slip from one configuration to another. Ancients wrapping tent poles, small logs for firewood, or other ciruclar objects might have come upon this number and attach a mystical significance to it.\n\nOne viable theory correlates the seven day week to the seven (astrological) "planets" known to the ancients: Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn. The number seven does not seem an obvious choice to match lunar or solar periods, however. A solar year could be more evenly divided into weeks of 5 days, and the moon phases five-day and six-day weeks make a better short term fit (6 times 5 is 30) to the lunar (synodic) month (of about 29.53 days) than the current week (4 times 7 is 28). The seven-day week may have been chosen because its length approximates one moon phase (one quarter = 29.53 / 4 = 7.3825).\n \n\n\n What Do the Names of the Days of the Week Mean?\n\nAn answer to this question is necessarily closely linked to the language in question. Whereas most languages use the same names for the months (with a few Slavonic languages as notable exceptions), there is great variety in names that various languages use for the days of the week. A few examples will be given here.\n\nExcept for the sabbath, Jews simply number their week days.\n\nA related method is partially used in Portuguese and Russian:\n\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n \nEnglish Portuguese Russian Meaning of Russian name \nMonday segunda-feira ponedelnik After "do-nothing" \nTuesday terça-feira vtornik Second \nWednesday quarta-feira sreda Middle \nThursday quinta-feira chetverg Fourth \nFriday sexta-feira pyatnitsa Fifth \nSaturday sabado subbota Sabbath \nSunday domingo voskresenye Resurrection \n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n \n\nMost Latin-based languages connect each day of the week with one of the seven "planets" of the ancient times: Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. French, for example, uses:\n\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n \nEnglish French "Planet" \nMonday lundi Moon \nTuesday mardi Mars \nWednesday mercredi Mercury \nThursday jeudi Jupiter \nFriday vendredi Venus \nSaturday samedi Saturn \nSunday dimanche (Sun) \n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n \n\nThe link with the sun has been broken in French, but Sunday was called dies solis (day of the sun) in Latin.\n\nIt is in
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The History of Analog Clocks (SEE FIRST LINK BELOW) provides an explanation of the origin of the 24-hour day. The system dates back 4,000 years, to ancient Egypt and Babylon. \n\nEgyptian astronomers divided the night hours into 12 distinct sets of star patterns, which emerged over the horizon at roughly hour-long intervals. They divided the day into 12 hours to match, and because they lived near the equator, the days and nights were of roughly equal length throughout the year. \n\nThroughout the rest of the world, the 12 "hours" of the day and night were flexible depending upon the season. It wasn't until the 13th century A.D. that an Arab scientist named Abul-Hassan suggested the idea of clearly defined hours. \n\nIt's also worth noting that the number 12 is special in many cultures. For example, Egyptians counted in base 12. Dividing the day into two sets of 12 was a simple and elegant way of condensing the annual calendar into a day. \n\n*Repost*
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It is conjectured that the seven day week as we know it was developed by the Babylonians over 3000 years ago. Historians believe that the Babylonians were avid astronomers. They based many of their mathematical systems (including their calculations of time) on the movement of the heavenly bodies. The first convenient division of time to be devised (after the day) was the month because it could be tracked by observing the cycles of the moon. It was at some point deemed convenient by Babylonian scholars to find a division of time greater than the day and shorter than the month. The big problem was that a cycle of the moon lasted about 29 and a half days. No round number of days divides evenly into 29 and a half - 4 was the best division they could find. So they went with the seven day week and worried about the loose change of extra days later. \n\nThroughout the world various systems for the week had developed. The most popular competition for the seven day week was the 10 day week. Yet the ten day week proved to be too long for those looking forward to the weekend. Besides, adoption of the seven day week by the Hebrews would ensure its longevity over other forms; during the early Christian Era it grew in popularity with the popularity of both Judaism and Christianity. The Christians converted the Romans and the Romans forcibly converted the remainder of the civilized world. In this way the creation story, where God creates the universe in six days and then rests on the seventh, became a model for the activities of all mankind. \n\nSo today we still use the seven day week. Only now, as a tribute to man's productivity, we rest two days a week. Like the week itself, each day of the week has its own particular story.
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Jason M - That has to do with months, not weeks.\n\nThe 7 day week is because of creation.
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lol, they werent born on holidays.  We named certain days after them and made them HOLIDAYS.
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The week based on the 6 days it took God to make the universe and rested on the seventh day. Thats the week but the week is composed of the 24 hour periods where we spin fully. The year where we revolve around the sun in 365 days.\n\nI hope that answers your question
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The hour was originally defined in ancient civilisations (including those of Egypt, Sumeria, India and China) as either one twelfth of the time between sunrise and sunset or one twenty-fourth of a full day. In either case the division reflected the widespread use of a duodecimal numbering system (counting with each thumb the spaces between the joints of the other finger on the same hand, i.e. 3 x 4 = 12) and the equally widespread tendency to make analogies among sets of data (12 months, 12 zodiacal signs, 12 main compass points, 12 hours, a dozen).
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The soothsayer's warning to Julius Caesar, "Beware the Ides of March," has forever imbued that date with a sense of foreboding. But in Roman times the expression "Ides of March" did not necessarily evoke a dark mood—it was simply the standard way of saying "March 15." Surely such a fanciful expression must signify something more than merely another day of the year? Not so. Even in Shakespeare's time, sixteen centuries later, audiences attending his play Julius Caesar wouldn't have blinked twice upon hearing the date called the Ides.\n\nThe term Ides comes from the earliest Roman calendar, which is said to have been devised by Romulus, the mythical founder of Rome. Whether it was Romulus or not, the inventor of this calendar had a penchant for complexity. The Roman calendar organized its months around three days, each of which served as a reference point for counting the other days:\n\n\nKalends (1st day of the month) \nNones (the 7th day in March, May, July, and October; the 5th in the other months) \nIdes (the 15th day in March, May, July, and October; the 13th in the other months) \nThe remaining, unnamed days of the month were identified by counting backwards from the Kalends, Nones, or the Ides. For example, March 3 would be V Nones—5 days before the Nones (the Roman method of counting days was inclusive; in other words, the Nones would be counted as one of the 5 days).
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The Mayday callsign was originated in 1923 by Frederick Stanley Mockford (1897-1962) [2]. Whilst senior radio officer at Croydon Airport in London, Mockford was asked to think of a word that would indicate distress and would easily be understood by all pilots and ground staff in an emergency. Since much of the traffic at the time was between Croydon and Le Bourget Airport in Paris, he proposed the word "Mayday" from the French m'aidez.