ordering of time

Scope Note

Sense of time; Conception of a minimal unit of time (e.g., a moment); divisions of the day and night (e.g., hours); divisions of the year (e.g., weeks, months, seasons); longer time spans; solar, lunar, and stellar reckoning of time; methods of dating; calendar and calendric knowledge; use of aids to measure the passage of time (e.g., sundials, clocks); etc.

Identifier

Broader Term

• 800 numbers and measures

Related Terms

• 221 annual cycle
• 405 measuring and recording devices
• 512 daily routine
• 527 rest days and holidays
• 561 age stratification
• 796 organized ceremonial
• 822 ethnophysics