I’m sure I haven’t asked the question correctly, but if all the clocks in the world are aligned, when did we start it? How did the entire world agree that midnight is midnight and any second behind or ahead is out of line?
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The first notion of time would have been recognizing **”before” and “after”.**
Then came meta notions of seasonal cycles, and days. Somewhere along the way breaking the day into smaller units became a thing.
It is a system of measurement we found useful. It is not a property of the universe. Time started when we started using it.
[https://medium.com/science-and-philosophy/time-did-not-exist-before-life-621f06889701](https://medium.com/science-and-philosophy/time-did-not-exist-before-life-621f06889701)
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