I always find things like this amusing.
Old English made similar use of its accusative and dative cases (the dative had absorbed the ablative) when it came to time, and in some more colloquial phrases this usage has stayed in our uninflected modern English. For example:
Accusative of time during: I was there a couple days = I was there for a couple days.
Ablative of time when: I got there Friday = I got there on Friday.
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