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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ScardPtori" data-source="post: 3657166" data-attributes="member: 42434">I like this concept.  Something I hadn't ever thought of, but it got me thinking.  How would they tell time and how much would it matter?  Based on your description of it being a "bronze age technology" it sounds like this is a civilization as in it is a relatively large and organized population with organized cities/villages?  If this is the case, then they would need some sort of method to get everyone on the same page.  So you'd logically have a normal time when most people are awake, doing business with each other and then a normal time when everyone is asleep.So here is my thinking:  back when this civilization was in a tribal organization pattern, you'd probably have had an alpha male leading the tribe (wouldn't necessarily have to be male, just the accepted leader of the "pack").  When the alpha male was awake, the pack would be awake.  When the alpha male was tired, then that would be time for the pack to sleep.  As the tribe grew, these normal periods of the activity and rest would probably stay in a relatively similar pattern, maybe slight variations as different leaders took over.  So once the tribe became large enough to be a village and not everyone always did what the one leader did, it would be necessary to create a way of keeping everyone on the same schedule.  So maybe at one point it was a guard on a tower ringing a bell when it was time to wake and time to sleep.  Once the civilization got into more technology, the idea of the water dripping or a sand falling hour glass was developed.  And this is where I would have the current technology at.  Perhaps there is a 12 or 14 hour "awake" period and an 8 or 10 hour "rest period.  There is an "official" hour glass for each of these two periods and you have a guard in a watch tower who flips over the appropriate hour glass, and when it runs out, he rings a bell and then flips over the other hour glass.  With this method you could stick with a 24 hour day cycle for convenience or go with a 20 hour day for something different.  Or even go completely different with 6 hours awake, 4 hours of rest and just cycle between those for a completely different feel.Just some thoughts that came to me, but if you don't like them, blame it on the fact I only had one cup of coffee so far.  8P</blockquote>

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