When they invented the clock,how did they know what time it was to set it too???

Question

When they invented the clock,how did they know what time it was to set it too???

Answer 1

They made up the time.

I don't know, lol.

Answer 2

sun dials helped

water clocks

sun moon stars

Answer 3

Uhh, they had sundials?

Answer 4

The sun and stars. That was how time was told for thousands of years before clocks were invented.

Answer 5

the first clock wasnt a circle and it didnt have hands. it layed flat on the ground and people could tell what time it was by looking at which line had shaded from there down.

Answer 6

Oooh.. Trippy..

But i suppose the answer would go back to the time of the first astronomers who figured out there was 24 hours in a day, and then they invented the sundial, so they knew the time from that :P

Answer 7

There have been many predecessors to the clock (sundial). Whoever invented it had to set it to a standard, which in this case was the sun (Earth rotates 360 degrees every 24 hours).  

Answer 8

hourglasses were used way before clocks were invented...and ya posted this question in the wrong section...

Answer 9

I asked the same question., But time is bast on the sun... befor they had clocks they has sun dials that told them what time it was bast on where the shadow was cast on the dial and from that they converted time over to the clock    but you can still use sundials.

Answer 10

lol thats a good question!

Answer 11

they had these clocks that were called sun dials they found out the time by looking where the shadow was

  http://www.2preslex.org/images/sundial05...  

Answer 12

They got the time from the mid-day sun, they had figured out time way before the invention of the clock....sun-dials, patterns of the moon, etc..