When they made the first clocks, how did they know whether they were accurate?

Question

They had nothing to compare the clocks against, and I don’t think the stars and the sun would have made an useful target for comparison.

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Answer 1

They usually isn’t a need for an accurate time since time is a construct before clocks there were candles with nails meeting times set based on the sun a town bell and days were literally counted when clocks started replacing sundials there were big clocks usually near town squares like Big Ben that gave ppl an “accurate” or at least synchronized time to work with time isn’t inherently useful when it’s completely accurate but rather when it’s relatively the same or simpatico for many ppl