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Time is just a name man gives an insubstantial concept that rlates to change. Changing petterns of night and day, weeks, months, years etc. etc. And the change that gradually occurs to any living thing, including the internal rythms, the heart beat that ticks away like an internal clock, the dripping of water, sand trickling through your fingers.
Of course it was helpful for ancient peoples to mark the passing of time and the rythms of the seasons, because of agricultural necessity. When to plant and when to reap etc. And ancient kings (like the Egyptian pharoes or the Dynsasties of oriental emperors) liked to be remembered as those leaders who affected change in their lifetime. So others had to be able to see When their lifetime was compared to those that came after. They wanted people to remember who they'd conquered and stuff.
And then of course all sorts of ingenious inventions were conjured up by intelligent people to mark the passing of time. Sundials, moondials, astronomy and astrology! (the big one)
sand clocks, water clocks and then of course modern clocks with pendulums and escapement with cogs and motors.
Sailors needed vary accurate time peices or they would get lost at sea, after all you can only use the stars at night to navigate, during the day you have to know what the time is so you can tell which direction at what time is north, to follow the compas accurately. I don't know how much you could depend on the sun, especially when there are storms and you can't see it!
Hope this helps.
""Each child holds the world in an open hand to mould it into any shape they choose.""
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