The sun dial worked during daylight, but how did people agree on what time it was at night before clocks were invented?

  • DaBPunkt@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Just spoke with a tour guide about this topic. If you lived in a city during the middle age in Europe, the night watch announced the current time every hour. How did they know the time? They just guessed, because nobody in the city could know better.