cover of episode Time's Untold Tales: Life before clocks & Dublin's two time zones in the 1870s

Time's Untold Tales: Life before clocks & Dublin's two time zones in the 1870s

2024/3/5
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Telling the time in hours and minutes seems so natural that we don’t even question where it came from. However it is a pretty recent development. For most of history our ancestors didn’t have clocks and understood time itself in a very different way.

In this podcast we will journey back through the centuries to explore how our ancestors measured time. Its an intriguing story. In the medieval world the length of an hour changed every day while Dublin in the 1870s had two separate time zones!

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