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How did the guy who invented the first clock know what (Original Post)
Floyd R. Turbo
Aug 2019
OP
They found a country with trains that run on time and set the new clock to that schedule
ProudLib72
Aug 2019
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underpants
(182,861 posts)1. They set it at midnight when gas stations have to stop selling beer
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)2. Sundial.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)3. At midnight, the darkness is at its highest point up in the sky.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)4. They found a country with trains that run on time and set the new clock to that schedule
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)5. They looked at their cell phones, duh
murielm99
(30,754 posts)6. You sound like my kid when he was about four years old.
That is not necessarily a bad thing.
malthaussen
(17,215 posts)7. He called the telephone company for a time check. n/t
Boxerfan
(2,533 posts)8. Stellar observation was a thing back then
And the concept of time in a accurate form was possible but it took a telescope & keen observations-and math.
The Elgin watch factory had its own observatory for time keeping to the nth degree.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elgin_National_Watch_Company_Observatory
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)9. Noon was when the sun was directly overhead
DFW
(54,426 posts)10. Just turned on his cell phone
Then copied and pasted onto the dial.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)11. Calibrated to when he had to pee in the morning