How Did People Tell Time in Jesus’ Day?

Archdiocese of Washington ^ | 03-22-17 | Msgr. Charles Pope

[Salvation]

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[Salvation]

Monsignor Pope Ping!

[lee martell]

I think some used Mountain Shadows, Sun Dials and Hour Glasses.
There are certain flowers that only bloom at night or under Moonlight. These include the Evening Primrose. Moonflowers as well. Moonflowers stay open all night and close when the first rays of sunlight touch their petals. Many Night Blooms have a heavy fragrance to help moths and other insects find them, such as Night Gladiolus and the very expensive Casablanca Lily.

[Timpanagos1]

When I take my family or when went with students to remote isolated areas of the world, we discard the watches, the phones, and the computers.

No time, just the sun, moon and if you are on the coast, tides.

It’s liberating, its quality time.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Sundials may date back to 1500 BC, and other means of artificially measuring time to well BC. The system was well enough known to time the Crucifixion to a precision of one hour (though, occurring during the day, the sundial would have sufficed).

Something like our modern daylight time would have seemed pretty silly to the ancients, however.

[PLMerite]

“Generally it was quarter after nine.”

I see what you did there. Bad.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Dawn, mid day, dusk, night. It’s always in that order. Who needs a clock for herding sheep?

[bigtoona]

One of the most amazing educational videos I have ever seen regarding time:

How The Earth Moves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJhgZBn-LHg

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

That and 數數

[Ronin]

Easy. If it was light outside, it was daytime. If it was dark outside, it was nighttime.

[dr_lew]

No time, just the sun, moon and if you are on the coast, tides.

We measure time by the sun to this day, except well, it's variable because of the eccentricity of earth's orbit. But this variation is understood, so we can apply that correction.

But supposing you don't apply that correction? Solar time does very well on its own, certainly for everyday purposes.

If you accept noon to noon as a day, how are you going to discover the variation of this interval? Who in these days can give an answer?

[Telepathic Intruder]

What it boils down to is that there is not an exactly even number of earth spins for every year, and there's no reason there should be. So some compensation is needed. The leap year system goes like this:

It's a leap year if the year is divisible by 4, unless it's also divisible by 100 in which case it's not, unless it's also divisible by 400 in which case it is.

This results in a year which is 365.2422 days long. Very close but not exact, although we shouldn't have to worry about it for several thousand years.

[Political Junkie Too]

-PJ

[seawolf101]

[BlueDragon]

Then's there's yur them there weather stones.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Greek and Romans had rather precise water clocks in all major cities, A horn would be sounded at each hour or a gong struck. The Roman Calendar used in the time of Jesus was based on the Egyptian and was solar. Israel was a bit behind the times. Julies Caesar had changed the Roman Calendar (with a little help from Cleopatra) The day was divided into 12 hours—each one for the 12 Gods. But the daylight hours were longer in the summer and shorter at winter—but they always had 12 hours of day and 12 of night. Still time was only on the hour— :I shall meet you at the Temple of Jupiter at Mars”.

[Delta 21]

[Vendome]

LOL!

Gotta hand it to you...

[BlueDragon]

You mean...you don't like Cliffy stories?

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