• Drivebyhaiku@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    While I definitely recognize the enthusiasm for the model… I would count it as not particularly useful in a medieval context unless you are a ship captain drawing maps. You need multiple people with synchronized time to make them useful for military ir social application.

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      8 months ago

      Now I’m wondering how did we ever manage to kill each other before timezones?

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        8 months ago

        More or less the same. Sharp or heavy objects were popular. But saying “the attack commences at three o’clock” wasn’t a thing. The idea of a second is about 1000 years old and we couldn’t measure them at all accurately until about 500 years ago.

        The very loud noise was the standard of military co-ordination for most of human history.