There is no physical scientific evidence to say that today is actually a Wednesday, we all just have to trust that someone has kept count since the first one ever.

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Hello from a Wednesday almost a year in the future! If it is in fact Wednesday...

It's nice that we have time pieces just about everywhere on our watches, computers, phones and clocks to keep track of time without relying on a human to update the count. Even still, there's a lot of trust that must take place:

* Trust in the programmers/engineers to make the timepieces follow the calendar properly, and not do nefarious things like skip a second or minute while the user is asleep.
* Trust that the calendar was accurate when they first translated time to a mechanical or digital circuit.
* Trust that ancient governments didn't modify the calendar as a prank the future citizens of the world.

A conspiracy seems highly improbable given how critical timing is in day-to-day life. However, it would be rather hilarious if somewhere in history our concept of time was modified as an unwritten prank.

Of course then there's all sorts of other things that screw with out concept of time:
* Timezones. It's Wednesday here, but probably it's already Thursday on a different part of the globe
* Leap Years: Our concept of "Wednesday" keeps shifting around as the years go around.

Regardless, the calendar is a very artificial thing. I mean if someday we colonize some far-off world, who there would care that it's an Earth Wednesday? and that's before considering relativity.

TL;DR Time is weird.