Or were all the old second counting systems wrong?
Many people have pointed out that if you start a timer on your phone and count out to 45 Mississippis, hippopotamus or number-one thousands it now ties out to a minute.
I have tried it a dozen times myself and after 45 counts I get anywhere between 54 to a minute and 4 seconds.
I specifically remember counting chunks of time as long as 15 minutes and not being off by a minute.
I found that one second in my head is almost twice as fast as 1 second to everyone else is. Then I got diagnosed with ADHD.
Howevs I don’t think 1 second is like, the baseline of human processing though. It’s an arbitrary number which is a 60th of a 60th of a 12th of daylight time in Mesopotamia.
Fun fact: In ancient greece (and presumably elsewhere, maybe as early as babylon) days were considered to genuinely change length throughout the seasons. Many clocks around the world cknvey this, inckuding Prague’s Astronomical clock