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Yes, a Western concept and basically a Catholic/Roman 'device'.
Trouble is, I think, that we follow the sun's timing (um, earth 'round the sun, I mean) and also the moon's timing and
thought of a system to compensate for the fact those two are not really in sync of course.
Um, not saying things should change or something, just noting the little illogicality of it here.. and wondered what the Chinese
came up with earlier (thinking they still followed their (quite logical) moon-calendar)
Mmmm, time..
(well, tiz time to prepare dinner here and that's a thing of importance in my.. world)