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It must have been brutal to create the first clocks when your smallest external reference is a day long. You first make a huge hour glass or clepsydra and tweak
by jobigoud 2y ago
It must have been brutal to create the first clocks when your smallest external reference is a day long. You first make a huge hour glass or clepsydra and tweak it once per day until it's perfect. Very slow debugging loop.
- tdiff 2y agoWell, defining seconds via "caesium frequency" is perhaps more brutal.