• Question: who knew the time when they made the clock?

    Asked by alexcarrx to Clare, Glafkos, Paul, Samantha on 10 Mar 2015.
    • Photo: Samantha Terry

      Samantha Terry answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      They decided on the position of the sun and with the use of sun dials I imagine..

    • Photo: Glafkos Havariyoun

      Glafkos Havariyoun answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      Agree with Samantha

    • Photo: Clare Devery

      Clare Devery answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      Yeah that’s how it was done…that’s why the time is different in different places around the world – because the sun appears to be in a different place in the sky!

    • Photo: Paul Booker

      Paul Booker answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      Just think about how you define a day and night – using the sun! So you can use the movement of the sun across the sky to define the middle of the day (and the middle of the night) and from there keep dividing until you get the system for time we have! I reckon we should all switch to decimal time but it might be tricky…

    • Photo: anon

      anon answered on 10 Mar 2015:

      A clock doesn’t measure time.. it measures angles which we infer the time.

      Mind. Blown. Right?

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