Time is a super common thing which is present all the time in our lives. Dictionaries define it as the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole, but in my own words I would define it as the thing that passes while we live. Even though we count every single day that passes, and we know the date of each day that we live, we do not notice how fast time goes.
Mankind has always wanted to control the time, to know how the time works and how we can measure it, besides of this calendars were also created so long ago. There is evidence which has demonstrated that artifacts were used to reckon time in the Paleolithic, 6,000 years ago, by looking at the position of the moon. The first calendars also appeared in the Paleolithic, called lunar calendar, using the position of the moon as reference as well. And after that many other people tried to figure out a way in which time could be organized, like for example when in 45 BC Julius Cesar arranged the Roman World in the solar calendar, or when the Pope Gregory XIII introduced a correction in 1582. It is important to mention this points because they can be used as a proof to demonstrate that human beings have always wanted to control time, even at an early stage as Paleolithic.
Furthermore, the calendar that we know today and the way in which we count the ours is more precise that the methods which were used in the Paleolithic, but if we think on it, the time always remains the same even though some people counts it in some way or another people counts it in a different way. Overall, time is an abstract thing, we cannot see it or touch it, it is a concept created by the humans.
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