By Vigdis Hocken and Anne Buckle
Source: Time & Date
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The Roman calendar is the ancestor of our modern calendar. Some of its features are still in use today.
Named After Gods and Planets
The names of the 7 days of the week in most Latin-based languages come from the Roman calendar, which related each day with 7 celestial bodies considered to be gods: the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.
The English language has retained the planet names for Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. However, the names for the other days of the week have been replaced by their equivalent Norse or Germanic gods.
Some Asiatic languages such as Hindi, Japanese, and Korean have a similar relationship between the weekdays and the planets.
The 7-day-week provides a clear method of representing dates and times to avoid misinterpretation between people from different countries with varying traditions for writing numeric dates and times.
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