Everyone uses spatial metaphors for time, but *which* spatial metaphors varies across cultures. Is the future ahead of us as we’re moving, or behind us because we can’t see it? Some use uphill/downhill. And then there’s the impact of writing direction.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-we-make-sense-of-time
The Lingthusiasm podcast episode on language and time is a good one too, and goes into even more issues of calendars, where the word “minute” came from, and so on.
https://lingthusiasm.com/post/168801498861/lingthusiasm-episode-15-talking-and-thinking