How did people set their clocks in the old days?

Question

Like before the Internet/tv/radio etc how the hell did people organise anything or do anything on time? How did they synchronise their clocks?

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Answer 1

POPCORN!

Lots of responses to “early days”, one European response. For the pre-internet but post phone era, In the US, calling 767-#### got you the time from the phone company. Always a busy tone on 31st Dec though.