Babylonian Hours

Babylonian Hours
-Willis Monroe (@willismonroe, willismonroe@gmail.com)
This clock uses a organisation of fourth dimension calculation from 2,500 years agone used yesteryear the Babylonians inwards ancient Mesopotamia. The fourth dimension is based on the concept of a seasonal hour, i.e. the length of an hr is seasonal in addition to depends on the duration of daylight inwards your electrical current location. This website grabs your place in addition to computes your local fourth dimension inwards this Babylonian organisation (here's an example of a cuneiform tablet from ancient Mesopotamia calculating seasonal hours). Obviously, the ancient Babylonians did non arrive at got digital clocks, in addition to thence this clock takes a few liberties amongst how it displays the data, if yous desire to know to a greater extent than close the calculations in addition to ancient Babylonian units of fourth dimension proceed reading below.
If you're only curious how to read this clock, the starting fourth dimension order out is the hr yesteryear sunrise or sunset (depending on twenty-four hours or night), the minute is a unit of measurement called an uš which counts upward from zero to a maximum of 12 for your electrical current location, the 3rd order out is a unit of measurement called gar for which in that place are lx inwards an uš, the acronym at the halt refers to a named quarter of the 24-hour day.

Acknowledgments:

You tin cheque out the source code on GitHub.
Geolocation is provided yesteryear freegeoip.net.
Local sunrise in addition to sunset is provided yesteryear sunrise-sunset.org.
Thanks to friends in addition to colleagues who looked over this in addition to pointed out inconsistencies and/or typos.

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