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colognehornet said:
Well yes....their technology was different <laugh> they used a sundial during daylight hours and a Greek water clock during the night. But how were the hours themselves different ?
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The number of minutes in the hour differed depending on the time of year. As they measured time between sunrise and sunset being 12 hours, as the days became longer or shorter, the number of minutes in an hour became greater or less.
 
oldfrenchhorn said:
The number of minutes in the hour differed depending on the time of year. As they measured time between sunrise and sunset being 12 hours, as the days became longer or shorter, the number of minutes in an hour became greater or less.
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In principle you're right Frenchie. They had twelve hours of daylight and twelve hours of night whatever the season - so their hours would be longer in summer, and shorter in winter. Correspondingly their night time hours would be longer in winter. An hour could be up to 90 minutes depending on the season - this is using modern measurements because they didn't use minutes. The Spanish word siesta comes from the Roman 'day', meaning literally the sixth hour 'Sexta hora'. Over to you.
 
Which Watford player holds the record of playing in 17 games, but never being on the winning side. As a clue he played in 12 "Old Firm" derbies without ever being on the losing side.
 
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