We consistently question how our ancestors managed without our modern inventions. They actually began the inventing.
First of all, they didn’t need ‘hourly’ increments of their daily lives. They rose with the sun, and slept when it set. Hunters and gatherers understood the seasons for weather, food and shelter.
Curses on the guy who began 9 to 5 !!!!!!
Exactly.
On long nights, in some cultures, they would wake up in the middle of the night and eat a small meal, visit outside, or use that period for some sort of, ahem, recreational activity. ;-)
They would then have a period of “second sleep. “