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[Question] How did people keep track of time in the early 1900's? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by trivial_vista@alien.top to c/watches@style.land

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Was wondering, because I put my mechanical watch and digital correct to the second via time.is , how people years ago had to correct time differences?

*not sure if entirly within the rules of this subreddit but just think it's interesting ..

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[–] Fogbank-1@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Most people didn't really care about being too precise, it was normal for different clocks and watches to be up to 10 minutes apart.

If you were an astronomer, railway worker, navigator, or someone else who needed to be precise, determining noontime precisely was pretty basic and could be done daily.