Kalyani Tupkary

Time isn’t like the other senses, Eagleman says. Sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearing are relatively easy to isolate in the brain. They have discrete functions that rarely overlap: it’s hard to describe the taste of a sound, the color of a smell, or the scent of a feeling. … But a sense of time is threaded through everything we perceive. 

our biology is tethered to the sun, yet the clocks society uses to keep time are influenced by a tangled web of political and historical factors.

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