anyone know anything about error rates in calendrical timekeeping? like, archaeologically / anthropologically / ethnographically… if i were in a cave scratching the wall, what'd be my day-slip rate? what about a society of 100 ppl? it goes so low so fast! we are a GREAT clock!
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Without sunlight cues human bodies run a bit faster than 24h on average iirc.
With no cues, you get real fucked up and stop being able to make even pretty rough judgments of times longer than a few minutes:
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wow!! so, without sun, he slipped 182 days in 364 days… pretty bad!
in my cave reference i guess i was imagining being able to go outside haha, so, with sun… what would it take for people to miss one? it's almost inconceivable. you'd notice the solstices slipping or w/e…
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