> TO CONFIRM: this means that the legal day and the
> legal date always changed at midnight in Italy (in
> Roman times, in times when Italian hours were used
> and, of course, today)?
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Dear Mario,
I have now read all your messages again. As Jim
Talliman says...
> Thanks for some very interesting scholarship!
One important thing you said is:
When in Italy the hour system changed with the
new hours "ab occasu solis", nothing changed
for lawyers and notaries, the roman ci
> For ordinary people, the change from
> unequal hours to equal hours must have
> been very difficult.
>
> There are records of people objecting
> to the 10 lost day in 1582. I am
> surprised that there are no records
> of people objecting to changing from
> unequal hours to equal hours.
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Dear Mario,
Thank you again for all your help.
I now have a better understanding of
how the Roman Army kept time both day
and night.
For ordinary people, the change from
unequal hours to equal hours must have
been very difficult.
This is more difficult than changing
from liras to euros. There
> I read in an ancient text but I can't remember now where that the romans
> soldiers put wax on the walls of the vase of the clepsitrae to get bettere
> measure in shorter nights. Unfortunately I can't give you reference just
> because I forgot the text and the name of the autor, so I don't know w
> Were these equal hours counted 1 to 24
> or were they counted as two periods of
> 1 to 12?
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Thear Frank,
I don't know this. I don' remember any ancient text that tell us how the
civil day was counted with hours. All I can say is that the equal hours were
used in ancient astronom
