Even having a calendar isn't all that exacting -- it took a couple centuries, for example, for the Romans to get around to having a calendar that covered the entire year, and a few centuries after that to standardize it instead of leaving the exact length up to political appointees.
The United States went way overboard in a sort of clock mania from the early 1800s on, to the point that a good clock might be the first priority for anyone setting up a farmhouse, even for someone in a place there weren't any railroads or anything they needed to be on time for. They just ... liked it.
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Even having a calendar isn't all that exacting -- it took a couple centuries, for example, for the Romans to get around to having a calendar that covered the entire year, and a few centuries after that to standardize it instead of leaving the exact length up to political appointees.
The United States went way overboard in a sort of clock mania from the early 1800s on, to the point that a good clock might be the first priority for anyone setting up a farmhouse, even for someone in a place there weren't any railroads or anything they needed to be on time for. They just ... liked it.