Why did the first person who thought of keeping time want to figure out ways to measure it?

Answer 1

What's the point otherwise ???????????

Answer 2

Hi:

To answer your question you must look at Nature because there is no one person that thought of time because the animals keep track of the season birds move south in the fall and north in the spring other animals like bears went to sleep during the winter and wake up in the spring. and the notice the change of the leaves in certian trees. Early man knew of the cycles of nature and by watching how many times the sun rise and fall in the sky. They knewthat so many marks told them when to hunt and when to move with the game . Later when they started settling down to a agricultural society they need to know when to plant the crops and when to harvest them. So by knowing the marks and watching the sun postion in the sky. they knew when spring and winter was over and coming . As they start observing the Cycles of Nature they found that it repeated itself every 365 days. As the society got more complex .they need a way to subdivide the day. So they use a stick and mark the Sun' s postion and started dividing of the day up. they found it lasted most 12 hours but due to the lenghten of the day in the Summer and the shorten of the day in winter they knew when to add a hour or subtract it from the cude sun dial.

Answer 3

So he could figure out when it was time to pay his rent. Those one-month hourglasses sure were bulky, though....

That's why rent is usually on the first of the month; that's when he invented it. He called the first day "The First of the Month"...but by the time he finished making his giant hourglass, it was time to pay his rent. You can look it up.

I don't know why he didn't just call it a monthglass--or even a rentglass. Hmmm...that could be another Yahoo!® Answers question, couldn't it?

Answer 4

Well, dufuss, maybe they needed to know when to plant their crops so that they could have food. Too soon = frost = starve. Too late = cold comes = starve.