How did the person who invented the first clock set it to the right time. And when and who invented it?

Answer 1

Time is an arbitrary concept. Before the first clock, time often was tracked by the sun and our current time units are still based (loosely) on the sun. Noon is (in theory) the time when the sun is highest in the sky. Hours are an arbitrary division of the time between the times when the sun is highest. Of course we've messed with this by creating time zones and daylight savings time. Read about the whole history of timekeeping at the link below.

Answer 2

The first clock was a sun dial and it was set by marking its shadow during the day. The shortest its shadow ever got was when it was noon. Once mechanical clocks were made they were also set by measuring when the sun was at its highest. Exactly who invented the first mechnical clock is not known, as it occured during the Medieval Ages, much of which was not recorded or is lost.

Answer 3

The first clocks were sundials, and they were set by making a mark when the sun was straight up in the sky,,, noon. The later clocks were coordinated with the sundials. Then we needed to establish the place in the world to go by to coordinate the whole world, and that is when we got Greenwhich Mean Time, GMT, and now we are all coordinated to that.

Answer 4

the first clock was a flat sundial. this was later evolved into the equatorial sundial which gave much more accurate times and could identify fractional times such as 4:15. if one is built big enough (like the one in india) you can actually tell the time (solar time that is) to the nearest minute.

then when electronic clocks were made they were set according to the time in greenwich which became known as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Answer 5

I guess you would just have to pick a certain time of the day to represent noon--when the sun was at its zenith on a particular day.

Answer 6

He probably set it to the pips on Radio 2.

Answer 7

think it was th romans with a sundial