If timekeeping was more or less down town to town, what about clocks? There were, to my knowledge, mechanical clocks that abounded in the cities. Did these not have a universal measurement for them? What I mean is, who decided the day had 24 hours, or two sets of 12 (like on a clock) and when? We take it as a given today, but back then, such nuances were more or less unnecessary for the common citizen. How and when did such standards such as numerical time measurements come about? I think I’ll look this up on my own time, since I can’t stop questioning this.

Is “Lomax” a Yiddish or Jewish name? It sounds somewhat like that, and it certainly doesn’t sound or look like a common Christian European name.

Thought of the day:

God created man. Man created clocks. And thus man created a way to control God and all his other creations. Time waits for nothing, now.