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Sand and Water used in early measurement of time

kevtherev
kevtherev Posts: 651
in Not Sports Related
How was the sand and water calibrated to measure time? A bit of a chicken and egg question for me.

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  • kevtherev
    kevtherev Posts: 651
    How do you think this was achieved?
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 23,012
    Using a sundial?

  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 23,012
    I know time slows down on international weekends.
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,060
    kevtherev said:

    How do you think this was achieved?

    Sundial a good shout I guess, or just calibrated for the length of time they needed it to measure?
  • mcgrandall
    mcgrandall Posts: 933
    edited March 2015
    By using any relative point of reference, which could be anything you choose, as long as it is consistent.
  • A-R-T-H-U-R
    A-R-T-H-U-R Posts: 7,678
    Well if the sand is covered in water, it's high tide, and if the water if far away it's low tide. From there you can divide the days. This basic structure would eventually allow the fourth official at Chelsea to hold up 4 minutes of extra time.
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,209
    edited March 2015
    It's a little known fact that in the same way that football did not exist until The FA invented the Premier League, time did not exist until Casio invented the watch.


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  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,460
    I hate it when people re-hash old news stories...

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