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Originally Posted by Dalillama
How might people keep time in a place where there are neither days nor seasons nor precession of stars? There are periods of light and darkness, periods of hot and cold, but they don't happen at predictable intervals. But if you're going to have a nation, with taxes and armies etc., you need some way to determine when taxes are due, when someone's enlistment is up, etc.
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Water Clocks work quit well. (They don't of need use water - oil works just as well, but at different flow rates.)
Candles, oil candles, and oil lamps burn fairly consistent times for a given amount of fuel.
Mechanical clocks, once equipped with a regulator, become very accurate right quickly.
What the units are? going to depend upon whomever set up the clocks, but will probably synch to around 24 hours if the primary people are humans.