Clocks around the world: how other languages tell time

How many hours are in a day Which direction is clockwise Can hours shrink Depends on your language Subscribe for more: Become my patron: 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 credits below). My doc full of sources for claims and credits for music, sfx, fonts and images: