Sociology, asked by himani13, 1 year ago

jisne sbse phle clock bnai.. vo time khan se laya hoga??

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time Jo clock me show hota hai wo real time nhi hai time KO 1 2 3 am/pm se nhi measure kr skte , time is said to be 4th dimension .

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Anonymous: When they made the first clock, how did they know what time it was? How did they set it?

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People were dividing the day long before there were clocks. Dawn, noon and dusk are fairly obvious. To anyone who doesn't live very near the equator,

Anonymous: it is also pretty clear that the length of days isn't constant. Sumerians and Egyptians both divided the day into either 12 or 24 periods, probably to match the 12 months of the year. It then took a while to figure out how to figure how the hours changed. In early systems, there were 12 daylight hours and 12 night time hours and the hours varied in length. (It helps that both those civilizations were fairly near the equator. The day-length ranges from about 10 to 14 hours.

Anonymous: But lengths of time could be measured in various ways, e..g by burning lengths of rope.

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