Kalyani Tupkary

You make it (somewhat) arbitrary. Divide the world into 24 time zones, and  slowly force people  — often through colonial might — to abide by one, standard time for an entire wedge. Do it in the name of commerce, of travel, of ease of communication, of  ease . Fast-forward a century and a half, and this rational/irrational time is just the way

The development that really established the seven-day week as insurmountable, Henkin contends, came in the middle of the twentieth century: the television schedule.