How many hours are in a day? Which direction is clockwise? Can hours shrink? Depends on your language!

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~ Briefly ~

Starting with Swahili, we'll tour a whole range of ways of telling time around the world. I will mention or discuss all of these:

- Swahili Time
- 12 and 24 hour clocks
- Italian and Thai six hour clocks
- temporal hours
- traditional Chinese time units
- Nāhua hours and cycle direction
- Hindustani time units
- Japanese 30 hour days
- natural standards

~ Credits ~

Art, narration and animation by Josh from NativLang. Quite a bit of the music, too. Other music by Joshua David Mitchell, Darren Curtis, Kevin MacLeod (see required incompetech.com credits below).

My doc full of sources for claims and credits for music, sfx, fonts and images:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O...

(? Cut from final edit:
Arid Foothills by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song...
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...
)

Adding The Sun by Kevin MacLeod
Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song...
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...