Why is it the same day of the week in every place in the world?

It's the same day, some have it early, some have it late, why is no place seriously out of kilter with the rest of the world, like having a Thursday when the rest of the world is having a Monday?

i don't understand caves :(

sarah palin is that you?

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tron how many hours does it take for earth to go around one time

Why do roads have dotted lines on them? And why are they always in the middle, where they're likely to be driven on and smeared all over the place???

why do people use different words for things, feelings, and actions in different parts of the world? wouldn't it be easier if we all just spoke the same language?

Let us assume that it is possible to make a journey around the world. Suppose further that three persons meet in a fixed place – one then sets off to the west, another sets off to the east while the third remains where he is and waits for the other two to complete their journey around the world. The one who set off to the west will return from the east while the one who set off to the east will return from the west. But the one who travelled to the west will have lost a day while the one who travelled to the east will count a day too many.

Indeed, the one who travelled to the west (we will assume it takes seven days to travel around the earth) walked in the same direction as the Sun, so for him the Sun set a seventh part of the day later each day. This, at the end of seven days, made a full revolution, or a full day.

The one who travelled to the east pursued a direction opposite to that of the Sun, so for him the Sun set a seventh part of the day earlier each day. This, at the end of seven days, made up a complete day which obliged him to count an additional day.

Thus, if the day of departure was a Friday and the day when the travellers met again was the following Friday, as counted by the person who had remained stationary, the one who had travelled to the west and returned from the east will reckon it to be a Thursday, while the one who had travelled to the east and returned from the west will reckon it to be a Saturday. The result will be the same, if instead of several days, the journey around the world would had lasted months or even years.

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Oh, I know the answer to that one. Once we DID all speak one language. This fact made things so fucking awesome that we decided to erect a gigantic building into the heavens so that we could give God a high five in person. But the LORD has major ego issues, so he decided to thwart the building plans by making everyone speak a different language. The next day, no one could understand anyone else, so they were all like "Shit, I guess we'll just forget about the building and populate the earth or something." THE END

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The reason is simple: global capitalism needed an unified system of time-keeping for logistics and stuff like that to run smoothly, which explains why it has spread all over the globe. And even before the spread of global capitalism the Christian churches had already asserted the unified calendar to the Christian nations for their own purpose of controlling the populace.

And, of course, in non-Christian cultures other rulers had done the same, but the various local calendars only became globally unified with the spread of capitalism.

i thought you said it was simple.

Well yeah, the simple reason is power.

It's the same day of the week in every place in the world for, like, an hour a day. You can put up with it.

a) coincidence
b) conspiracy
c) common sense

So anyway, why do countries call other countries different things to what those other countries call themselves?

Hmm?

Germany?

"No, we are Allemagne"

Oh, soz.

It happens less with newer/renamed countries...

"Beijing"

Yes?

"S'all right. just checking"

Zimbabwe is zimbabwe is zimbabwe.

Great Britain is Y.O.Mini is Angletear is etc..

Iso-Britannia

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well it is 2001 in Ethiopia right now. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_calendar)