African time is reckoned by concrete events rather than numerical calendars

Evidence

The setting of clocks to astronomically local time or, at best, to county seat time led to a proliferation of time zones. Before standard time Michigan had twenty-seven time zones; Indiana, twenty-three; Wisconsin, thirty-nine; Illinois, twenty-seven. — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 847 (#expands, via linked claim)

To space-binding cultures he opposed time-binding cultures: cultures with interests in time—history, continuity, permanence, contraction; whose sym- bols were fiduciary—oral, mythopoetic, religious, ritualistic; and whose com- munities were rooted in place—intimate ties and a shared historical culture. The genius of social policy, he thought, was to serve the demands of both time and space; to use one to prevent the excesses of the other: to use historicism to check the dreams of reason and to use reason to control the passions of memory. — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 624 (#qualifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: African thought has no concept of history ending or reaching a climax; Local sun-based time produced dozens of conflicting time zones per state — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 847; Time-binding cultures value history, ritual symbols, and rooted community — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 624 (+1 more)

Related

• Local sun-based time produced dozens of conflicting time zones per state (similarity 0.81)
• Before standardization each US state maintained dozens of conflicting local time zones (similarity 0.79)
• Time-binding cultures value history, ritual symbols, and rooted community (similarity 0.79)
• African time reckoning uses event-based phenomena calendars, not numbers (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Local sun-based time produced dozens of conflicting time zones per state #expands (0.55) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 847
• African thought is the reflected science of lived life grounded in culture #corroborates (0.40)
• Time-binding cultures value history, ritual symbols, and rooted community #qualifies (0.30) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 624