How could a system of time have any meaning? Especially any specific time. The reason we break down the days into two twelve-hour segments is because the greeks used a twelve symbol zodiac because there are twelve moons in a year. Seconds and minutes are arbitray units that were just invented by someone a long time ago, so long ago that we don't even contemplate what a minute or a second or even an hour mean. It's just a way of getting to appointments on time, or no less than five minutes late. The very idea of time is fluid, the progression of its movement depends on your speed, or any given clock's speed, compared to sometihing else. That is what relativity means, that time is not a constant. There is no underlying meaning, a number on a clock is just a number.
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