What fascinating stuff do you know about the Roman empire?

  • @potterpockets
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    9 months ago

    The Romans had 12 day-hours and 12 night-hours. The first daylight hour began at sunrise. The last daylight hour ended at sunset. There were no minutes or seconds tracked, but this means that as the length of the day got longer/shorter the length of the Roman daylight hours were longer/shorter. E.G. The hour of what we think of as 2:00 pm might be ~80 minutes in summer and ~40 minutes in winter instead of always being 60 minutes.

    • I'm back on my BS 🤪
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      24 months ago

      That’s so cool! I imagined they used a sundial to tell time during daylight. How did they tell time at night?