What Is Time?

Did you know?

The word "calendar" comes from the Roman word, "Calends", which was the name of the account book, the book recording monthly debts and bills to be paid?
Time isn't money?

You must begin this study by asking yourself the question: What is time? How many perceptions of time can there be? Is time culturally relative or is there an absolute time? How do instruments of time measurement condition how we think about time and reality? Consider the following excerpt from A Treatise on Time (1996), V.V.

"Just as air is the atmosphere of the body, so time is the atmosphere of the mind. If the time in which we live consists of uneven months and days regulated by mechanized minutes and hours, that is what becomes of our mind: a mechanized irregularity. Since everything follows from the mind, it is no wonder that the atmosphere in which we live daily becomes more polluted, and the greatest complaint is: "I just don't have enough time!" Who owns your time, owns your mind. Own your own mind and you will know your own mind."