BOMBS@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoHow did people tell time at night before clocks?message-squaremessage-square97fedilinkarrow-up1155arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1152arrow-down1message-squareHow did people tell time at night before clocks?BOMBS@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square97fedilinkfile-text
The sun dial worked during daylight, but how did people agree on what time it was at night before clocks were invented?
minus-squarekent_eh@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-29 months ago Matters for public transport tbh Which didn’t operate on that strict a time schedule (if at all) in the time period OP is asking about.
minus-squareFlax@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months agoFair. I’d hate to show up to my bus 5 minutes early just to realise it left 10 minutes early, though
minus-squareZephrC@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoHey, if you live in a place where the public transport actually shows up when it’s supposed to that’s nice for you, I guess, but where I’m from pretending that the public transport is accurate down to the minute is also a lie.
Matters for public transport tbh
Which didn’t operate on that strict a time schedule (if at all) in the time period OP is asking about.
Fair. I’d hate to show up to my bus 5 minutes early just to realise it left 10 minutes early, though
Hey, if you live in a place where the public transport actually shows up when it’s supposed to that’s nice for you, I guess, but where I’m from pretending that the public transport is accurate down to the minute is also a lie.