• skvlp@lemmy.wtf
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    1 day ago

    Knowing the exact time. Back then most people probably only had public clocks, like the clock tower on churches, to tell time

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      There wasn’t even a universal time. Every village had its own time. Only the invention of trains made it necessary to synchronize all the times.