Timeline for Have there been accurate alternative clocks/ways to tell time?
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| Dec 4, 2021 at 2:20 | comment | added | Ray Butterworth | By "accurate" you actually mean "precise". ¶ Suppose something happens at 10:30 a.m. The expression "Some time in the morning" is accurate, but not precise. "11:17:47 p.m." is precise, but not very accurate. | |
| Dec 3, 2021 at 14:55 | answer | added | Ray Butterworth | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 3, 2021 at 11:24 | answer | added | uUnwY | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 3, 2021 at 8:57 | comment | added | uUnwY | Swahili time is just the 24 hour system but starting at sunrise rather than midnight. There's also the Bohemian time (which is shown on the famous clock in Prague) that starts half an hour after sunset but the hours are the same length as hours, so in autumn the day is slightly shorter than 24 hours and in spring a few minutes longer. But it's still based on the 24h system. | |
| Jun 10, 2016 at 15:24 | vote | accept | Gerhard | ||
| Jun 10, 2016 at 14:06 | answer | added | Erik Goff | timeline score: -2 | |
| Mar 12, 2016 at 17:16 | history | edited | HDE 226868♦ |
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| Mar 11, 2016 at 20:10 | comment | added | Gerhard | @yellow sky: it would be interesting if you could elaborate a bit more - it seemed to me, that they still used a 24 hour division, though - or did I misunderstand this? | |
| Mar 11, 2016 at 19:42 | comment | added | Conifold | The 12/24 part is not exclusively Babylonian, ancient Egyptians and Chinese also had this division, for different reasons, and independently of Babylonians. hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/2876/… | |
| Mar 11, 2016 at 19:32 | answer | added | Alexandre Eremenko | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 11, 2016 at 13:16 | answer | added | Colin Fine | timeline score: 5 | |
| Mar 11, 2016 at 9:56 | history | migrated | from linguistics.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Mar 10, 2016 at 18:09 | answer | added | user6726 | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 10, 2016 at 10:25 | comment | added | Yellow Sky | There's the Swahili clock: google.com/#q=swahili+clock | |
| Mar 10, 2016 at 10:21 | comment | added | bytebuster | Would the four-section Thai system of telling time be an answer? Telling minutes and seconds in Thai is as usual. | |
| Mar 10, 2016 at 9:44 | history | asked | Gerhard | CC BY-SA 3.0 |