[svantana]

Yet another headline phrased as a question without a clear answer in the article body...

[coldpie]

A slight rephrasing of the headline allows us to apply Betteridge's law[1]: "Have we solved the mystery of why a minute is divided into 60 seconds...?"

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines

[Vecrios]

There is so much interesting information in the article that people really forget what they came for, the answer to the proposed title question.

Personally, I wasn't upset at all. I really liked the article although it had a deceiving title.

[hugofirth]

How else would you have an article referring to an open question phrased?

[DougWebb]

"We wasted our time writing this. Now you can waste your time reading it."

[toki5]

That's not fair at all. I enjoyed reading about ancient timekeeping and the theories that powered them. I had no idea how they tracked time at night, for example; now I do.

[robmcm]

"The mystery of why is a minute divided into 60 seconds, an hour into 60 minutes?"