What I mean to ask is that how did people coordinate day to day activities without a universal date and time system? And how did the current date and time system get implemented universally?
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People didn’t really keep time before. In Europe the church bells would ring at specific hours and that was precise enough for most daily activities. People just didn’t expect more precision and since travel was slow, constant delays were just a normal part of life.
You have to remember that up until the 19th century, populations were much, much smaller than today. In 1750 there were only 650,000 people in all of London which was one of the biggest cities in the world. In 1821, it was already more than twice that number.
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