How did they meusere time in the olden days ?

Answer 1

in the past differing groups measured time from a point they considered inportant to them or the state.
It is assumed neolithic peoples measuered time accorting to the seasons, as many ancient chinese writings indicate: "I have seen 15 passes of the season of the birth of the white crane (15 springs=15 years). Kings measurd time by the years of thier reign, or seasons of a specific object: "Pharoh Rameses the Third has seen 63 passes of the flood of the Great Mother River, by the grace of his father Ammon-Ra"
(Ramses 'the great' lived for 63 years as counted by the flooding of the nile).
In later periods many groups counted time mathematically as in years by dividing days between festivals and adding the days together and adding other mythology. The Romans counted years by the mythological time of the founding of Rome (Rome was founded so many years before the death of King Numidor so time of King Numidor + years of his rule + years after his death = years of the City)
Daily time was counted by watches and candles made a specific thickness and expected lasting of time.
In England, and most of Europe, during the Medieval period, time was counted two ways; by the roughly calculated time from the creation of the world according to the bible of the time + the lifespan of all the biblical partriacs and thier generations + the life of christ to the crucufiction= BC and AD
and also the reign of the king.

Answer 2

It's a strange concept today, but the length of hours was not always considered fixed.

The day was divided into 24 hours, of course, but 12 hours were allotted to daytime and 12 hours to nighttime. This makes sense if you are using a sundial, which will always record 12 sunlit hours in a day.

The idea of fixed length hours didn't really mean anything until the invention of mechanical clocks -- and water clocks were a bit of a rarity, so even though those might have given you a fixed-length hour, there weren't enough to make a difference.

Answer 3

keep in mind that they didn't have a need to be many places at a certain time. They were not on such tight schedules as we are now-a-days. High noon was simply as it sounds. When the sun was at it's highest. Dawn and dusk were times. Mid afternoon and midmorning were time stamps. There was no need to say I'll be there at 5 PM. Just didn't happen.

Answer 4

Various means including a sun dial, water clocks.

Answer 5

by the sun. - they would usually use a sun dial, which would cast shadow on a particular part showing what time of day it was-(morn, mid-morn, late-morn, mid-day, early eve, eve, night) Or just tell by its position in the sky
They also measured long-term time by counting the moons many phases

Answer 6

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