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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* The Marvel ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]'' comic book series introduced two Cybertronian time units: a "Breem" (8.3 minutes) and a "Vorn" (83 years). Apparently, giant shape-shifting robots never bothered with units of time greater than 8.3 minutes and less than 83 years...
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* Many native American folk myths begin with the phrase, "Many moons ago." One "moon," of course, was the time from one full moon to the next, or from one new moon to the next, which is about (but not exactly) a modern calendar month.
** To be precise, it's 28 days.
* Most people don't know that "moment" is actually a strictly-defined unit of time from the Middle Ages: there were 40 moments in a solar hour, which itself was defined as one twelfth of the period between sunrise and sunset. Naturally, since this period varies day-to-day and season-to-season, the medieval moment had no fixed duration, but some modern interpretations set it at one-fortieth of a modern hour, or 90 seconds.
** Just in case you're curious, the medieval system was even more complicated. According to the Venerable Bede, a solar hour could be broken down into 4 points, 10 minutes ''or'' 15 parts as well as 40 moments; i.e., 10 moments = 1 point, 4 moments = 1 minute and so on. And eventually the moment itself was subdivided into 60 ostents. The actual durations of all of these units varied by time of year, of course, and some were little more than theoretical oddities, unable to be measured at all with the equipment available at the time.
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