If they knew the earth rotated, then they could assume that noon happened at different times at different locations. But did they have a way to prove this without being able to travel or communicate fast enough to observe the effects?
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The understood the earth was round and that different points had different amounts of light
So I’d guess they understand that if it’s noon for them it isn’t noon for everyone but they wouldn’t call it a timezone, they generally just used general term times of dusk dawn noon for most things so time would be more a gradual shift then a hard hour zone
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