Having seven days in a week has been the case for a very long time, and so people don’t often stop to ask why. Most of our time reckoning is due to the movements of the planets, Moon and stars.

Having seven days in a week has been the case for a very long time, and so people don’t often stop to ask why. Most of our time reckoning is due to the movements of the planets, Moon and stars.

The seven-day week spread throughout the Near East. It was adopted by the Jews, who had been captives of the Babylonians at the height of that civilization’s power. Other cultures in the surrounding ...

Harry Stebbings, a 29-year-old VC founder, ignited a debate over 996 culture and what sort of schedule is required to build a ...

The ancient Romans settled on a seven-day week around 2,000 years ago because there are seven celestial bodies that can be seen from Earth: the sun, the moon and the five planets.

Now the seven-day week is a global standard—and has come to dominate our sense of where we stand in the flow of time, according to David Henkin, a historian at UC Berkeley.

Employees at AI chipmaker Nvidia are expected to be at their desks seven days a week and often until 2 a.m. — but workers are loath to leave due to the company’s generous pay package ...

Having seven days in a week has been the case for a very long time, and so people don’t often stop to ask why. Most of our time reckoning is due to the movements of the planets, Moon and stars.

Finally, once the Romans began to conquer the territory influenced by Alexander the Great, they too eventually shifted to the seven-day week. It was Emperor Constantine who decreed that the seven-day ...

Why are there seven days in the week? No, this isn’t a question that a curious 10-year old asked me. Instead it was the late-night group musing on a recent work trip. After an extended back and ...