Talk:History of timekeeping devices

message: The references are not consistently or correctly formatted; I'm be working on them and using the Harvard system in a consistent way. Ping me with objections if you have any. Thanks, Amitchell125 (talk) 14:30, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  No replies, so I'm going ahead with formatting the references consistently. Amitchell125 (talk) 16:39, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  Now completed. Amitchell125 (talk) 07:36, 17 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: That's a lot better. --ChetvornoTALK 23:26, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: References

message: Immediately under the heading "Ancient Egypt", it states "See also: History of the civil war", with a link to the article on the American Civil War.  Nothing else under that heading has anything to do with the American Civil War, so I'm at a loss to understand why it's referenced there.  Can anyone explain? Occam's Shaver (talk) 06:54, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ancient Egypt = the history of the Civil War? 

message: Although the history of the hourglass may not be precisely known, it doesn't seem to have been used in China before the mid 16th century, and as Needham said in Science and Civilization, an hourglass implies the use of glassblowing, since it would be difficult to get an "hourglass" shape in without it.  Glassblowing was not commonly done by the Chinese, thereby implying an European origin for the hourglass, although Needham himself does not specifically state that, but he does reference a source, Wang Chen-To, which does state that Chinese obtained the hourglass from the Dutch or Portuguese.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.111.162.10 (talk) 20:54, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: The article has been edited to include this information. Amitchell125 (talk) 06:38, 12 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Update to the hourglass section 

message: Timekeeping is an essential tool in drawing any type of horoscope (horo =hour) yet Indian astrologers dance around the question of how birth times were recorded for commoners who later became famous. The rich elite could afford servants to oversee and maintain water clocks etc but sundials are useless at night or in the monsoon season. Yet it is glossed over as to how accurate birthtimes were ascertained and recorded.
No itinerant astrologer is capable of transporting a water clock in their travels and it would be easy to forget to turn a portable hourglass over. So just how did they record birth times? The Ascendant moves approximately one degree every four minutes so accurate timekeeping is absolutely indispensable in drawing up a chart.
I emailed one Hindu astrologer who came up with the ridiculous justification of using a 'moondial' at night... what if it's cloudy or raining? I have never come across a satisfactory explanation for this.. Every Jyotish practitioner dodges the question and dances around it as if I'm some kind of demon Ningnongtwit (talk) 08:11, 1 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jyotisha (Vedic astrology)  

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message: Although the smart phone, is not technically a timepiece, it has become "the clock" for hundreds of millions of people, and it is set to atomic clocks. I'll maybe try to add something, but someone with more energy for this article should add a section. History is now. cheers Billyshiverstick (talk) 03:00, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Please replace all occurrences of "iPhone" with "smartphone" in your comment, and remove any redundant text.  Most of the devices that have become "the clock" for people are probably Android phones, even if a lot of them are iPhones.  (And, as far as I know, they use similar clock-syncing mechanisms, syncing with mobile phone networks and with Network Time Protocol servers, the latter and probably the former ultimately providing syncing with "atomic clocks".) Guy Harris (talk) 09:27, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Smartphone anybody? 

message: Can someone confirm the authenticity of Henry de Vick's contribution stated in the introductory paragraphs? Did he create a mechanical clock in 1360? If so, was he the inventor of mechanical clocks or did he just make a particularly famous one as the article suggests? Noel Malik (talk) 21:34, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it wasn't the first, or the "most famous" as the intro says, or even particularly famous.  It's notability is that it is one of the few clocks from this early period for which a good, accurate drawing of the mechanics was made and has come down to us, so it has  appeared in a lot of encyclopedias and antique clock books. Thanks for catching that. My feeling is that you can delete that undue weight sentence in the introduction.  Amitchell125 did an excellent rewrite a year ago, which corrected a lot of erroneous information.  --ChetvornoTALK 03:11, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarification about a point