The Journal
Notes on owning time
What Do You Actually Buy When You Buy a Day? Real Property and Symbolic Ownership
Buying a star, a plot of land in Scotland, or a day on Days Owners all have something in common: none of them is real property — they're symbolic ownership. We break down the legal difference between the two, what the platform actually guarantees about each day you buy, and why people have been paying for symbols for centuries.
7 September 2026
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Your Name in Stone: A History of Paying to Be Remembered
From a Roman who funded a library and pioneered history's first matching-funds appeal, to the modern business of stadium naming rights: we trace five episodes where paying didn't buy an entire object, but the right for a name to stay attached to it. Centuries later, that same logic is what Days Owners is built on.
Who Keeps the Record? A History of Land Registries, From 1086 to the Blockchain
From the 1086 Domesday Book to Sweden and Georgia's blockchain land-registry experiments: a journey through who has kept the proof that something is yours throughout history, and what a registry actually guarantees.
Time Zones: How the World (Almost) Agreed on What Time It Is
Until the late 19th century, every city kept its own noon, set by the sun overhead. A missed train, a Canadian engineer, and a conference in Washington changed that forever, though not every country ended up playing by the same rules.
September 11: The Day the Calendar Became Memory
Some dates stop being just a number on the calendar. September 11, 2001 is one of them: we look at why certain days become permanently etched into collective memory.
February 29th: The Rarest (and Most Coveted) Day on the Calendar
It only shows up once every four years. We explain the origin of February 29th, how the leap year rule actually works, and why it's the most in-demand date on Days Owners.
24 Hours, Thousands of Years: The History of How We Measure a Day
24 hours, 60 minutes, 60 seconds: numbers we take for granted, but that come from the Egyptians and Babylonians. We explain why we measure the day this way, how we've tracked it throughout history, and why time zones are more recent than you'd think.
Why the Week Has 7 Days: Origins, Names, and the Soviet Attempt to Abolish It
No astronomical cycle lasts exactly 7 days — and yet the week has outlasted empires and revolutions that tried to change it. Where its names come from, why the weekend is a 20th-century invention, and the Soviet experiment that failed trying to abolish it.
A Brief History of the Calendar: How Humanity Learned to Measure Time
From Babylon's lunar calendars to the French Republican calendar that failed after just 12 years: a journey through the origins of the calendar, its many forms around the world, and the curiosities almost no one knows.
Can You Buy Something That Doesn't Physically Exist? The Legal Status of Stars, Names, and Days
Buying a star, naming something, or owning a day doesn't always mean what it seems to. We break down the difference between legal ownership, private registries, and symbolic title — and what you're really getting with Days Owners.