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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I live in Northern Canada. The farther North you go, the sun never sets. I’ve been in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut which is at the 69th parallel where you wake up in June at 2:00 am and you’re totally disoriented because it looks like noon outside and there’s kids driving their bikes around. I’m told that in the old days, the Inuit would just sleep when they were tired when they were travelling in the land because they didn’t know what time it was. Funny enough, Cambridge Bay was a DEW (Distant Early Warning) line station in the Cold War. They still have an air raid siren that goes off every day at 12 noon and 10 pm so that’s one way to tell time.
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