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Who knew what time it was when the first clock was made?

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Re: Clock

Sundials, maybe. Depends on your definition of clock.

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Re: Clock

My guess is they set the clock at high noon, an observable predictably repeatable event, and watched to see whether that worked out well. After all, without clocks they could only just guess at the time. I doubt they had an advanced theory of Earth rotation, even though they may have had sundials. They may not have known whether the sun went around the Earth (likeliest guess on their part) or whether the world rotates. But they had a sense that time was periodic and stable in its passage.

Of course, if you want the real truth, aliens descended from the sky and gave ancient peoples the blessings of fire, clocks, and cell phones.

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Re: Clock

Sorry but i thnk the time when the first clock was made the time was Noon there wasn't really an actual time since they didn't know how to use it so it had to be noon

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Kirby

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Re: Clock

Sorry but i thnk the time when the first clock was made the time was Noon there wasn't really an actual time since they didn't know how to use it so it had to be noon

Wait

Your logic is it was noon because they didn't know how to tell time

That makes total sense

skullz17

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Re: Clock

The sun is a clock. They could've just looked at the sun's position in the sky and known the time.

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Re: Clock

The sun is a clock. They could've just looked at the sun's position in the sky and known the time.

Who gave the time numbers? :3
No ones knew what hour was this time

skullz17

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Re: Clock

Are you asking, why did they choose to split a day into 24 hours? Or which unit of time came first? Something like that?

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Re: Clock

the 24 hours format was a new thing comparated to the sun clocks, when they did it with numbers they just saw wich time was the sun on the top, time zones came much after (1600-1800 idk when)

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eeisold

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Re: Clock

I'd speculate that people didn't need precise time measurements when they were first created. A prime example would be the creation of time zones for the railroad. With that, there never really was a precise time because everyone would be offset by their position on Earth.

So my answer is: they didn't care.

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Re: Clock

I recall things like natural clocks or something being around but I might be wrong and I honestly can't give any specific examples
Something like pendulums or water or something

Calicara

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Re: Clock

Time is relative. Where I live it's based on the rising and setting of the sun. It's probably impossible to date back to the first clock ever, but it probably was based on a similar concept. Either the rising/setting of the sun, or the seasons. Like I took a class about ancient Egypt and we tried to trace back the calendar, and we determined the first calenders were devised based on the flooding of the Nile.

In other words, it don't think it really matters since time is an arbitrary value, but it certainly is an interesting question

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