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On the other side of the world - the Mayan civilisation of Central America - went one step ahead by basing their calendars on the sun, moon and planet Venus to calculate both 260-day and 365-day calendars. The Babylonians followed this up around 2000BC, with a 354-day year divided into 12 lunar months. It took thousands more years until the ancient Egyptians devised a 365-day calendar which, archaeologists think, begun around 4236BC, making this the first recorded year in history.

#Timeworks storytime clocks plus

They were able to figure out the time of year by observing the movement of the sun, moon, planets and stars so that they could work out when migratory animals would be passing through their locality, knew that certain plants grew in the spring and fruited in autumn.Д«ut that, as far as we know, was just about it and, by the time Alf appeared on the scene, they had even worked out a method of scratching lines on bones, plus gouging holes in sticks to count the days according to phases of the moon, but things like hours and seconds were unheard of. Prior to that particular Ice Age, Alf's ancestors too had faced problems with time schedules. Being late for an event, even just supper, can land you in trouble with a capital 'T' and Alf, for want of a better name, knew from experience that not knowing the time could very well be the difference between food and starvation.ДЄlf, you see, didn't have a clock, a watch, a mobile phone or a computer screen to tell him what time it was as he was a prehistoric man living in Europe over 20,000 years ago when his known world was solidly encased in ice.

In this high-tech world of today - with school timings, television programme schedules and so many extracurricular activities - knowing exactly what time it is, day or night, is of utmost importance.