BOMBS@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoHow did people tell time at night before clocks?message-squaremessage-square104fedilinkarrow-up1187arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1184arrow-down1message-squareHow did people tell time at night before clocks?BOMBS@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square104fedilinkfile-text
The sun dial worked during daylight, but how did people agree on what time it was at night before clocks were invented?
minus-squareIlluminostro@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up76arrow-down2·7 months agoThey didn’t. They went to sleep shortly after dark, woke up around midnight to fuck and eat, then went back to sleep until dawn. For hundreds of thousands of years.
minus-squarez00s@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·7 months agoI’ve been living in the future but I should’ve been living in the past
They didn’t. They went to sleep shortly after dark, woke up around midnight to fuck and eat, then went back to sleep until dawn. For hundreds of thousands of years.
I’ve been living in the future but I should’ve been living in the past
The future is then now!