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  "thread": {
    "id": 773,
    "subject": "Time Keeping Devices",
    "messages": 1,
    "voices": 1,
    "first": "1998-06-13T02:36:00+00:00",
    "last": "1998-06-13T02:36:00+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0013-0041@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "m.driussi",
        "address": "m.driussi at genie.com"
      },
      "date": "1998-06-13T02:36:00+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Time Keeping Devices",
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      "reply_link": null,
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          "text": "The water-clock is called a clepsydra in the text, I believe.  The\nwell-to-do seem to have them.  The dingus in the autarch's bedroom\nhas been seen by nobody talking.\n\nThere are also sundials.  Even a pocket sundial.  Candles marked off\nwith the watches.\n\nNote that the \"watches\" are probably seasonally adjusted (and I don't\nmean \"Spring forward, Fall back\"--or do I?).  So the watches of the\nnight are literally longer (rather than being more numerous) in the\nwinter than in the summer (the Japanese used to reckon time this\nway).  But maybe not.\n\nIf they are, however, then a modern clock such as we use would seem\nto them to be isochronal, since the watches of day and night are\nequal to each other and unvarying through the seasons.  Our measure\nand concept of time is quite mechanical and relatively recent.\n\n=mantis="
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