Even After Death, We Age! — As yet unsettled

This is fascinating, but for the life of me I cannot decipher the unclear mathematics.

I think this means that Homeric days were 7 hours shorter than modern days - but there's no mention of how not just unreliable but wrong(!) this makes best-guesses about the ages of the few ancients for whom we have reliable birth and death dates.

Using front-of-smartphone calculations this would imply that Æschylus and Thucydides would be around 17.5 modern days older than we already guess; Socrates's final drink happened around ~20.4 days later than we think. (Not that it's therefore less a tragedy....)

These are poor examples as we have fixed dates for none of them; these are approximations atop best-guess approximations. But still.

Alexander the Great (who did just slightly more in his nearly 32 years, 11 months than I have in my 39 years, 11 months) was ~9.59 days closer to 33 than we think, modern-diurnally speaking.

Anyway, interesting.

And then, as I went to wrap this up, I realized, to my substantial disappointment, that I'm 20-or-so seconds older than I thought. God dammit.

Maybe this is the reason so many people hate science....

UPDATE: I'm pretty sure I've fallen down a bad-math hole here, but I can't see the source of the mistake. I'm sick, tho, so perhaps that's why? He said, hoping that's why...

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