Author Topic: How did people wake up on time for work (Read 3000 times)

Cerveza mas fina · « **on:** October 28, 2012, 06:43:54 PM »

before there were alarm clocks?

Im reading a book now set in some fantasy world and this dude has to be somewhere 5ish in the morning. How does he do it?

Despite my degree in history im baffled. Im just assuming shops opened when the owners wanted and all other appointmenta where made well after sunrise at set times when the church bell rang.

Im talking about city folk not farmers btw.

G The Resurrected · « **Reply #1 on:** October 28, 2012, 06:47:36 PM »

Believe it or not our brain chemistry has a built in clock function! That shit sets itself based on your sleep patterns and what the body needs to rest. I don't even use an alarm clock anymore, I'm so programed. I wake up at 5:30am each day on my days off I can't sleep in more than an extra hour or so. If I sleep past that time the cat's wake my ass up to feed them.

MCD · « **Reply #2 on:** October 28, 2012, 06:51:01 PM »

No AC

Window shutter/curtain half open

Roosters everywhere

No lazy technology

Will power

Sharingan

And the list goes on.

Verdigris Murder · « **Reply #3 on:** October 28, 2012, 06:51:57 PM »

The title screen is weird. And it's shady as hell.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #4 on:** October 28, 2012, 06:53:19 PM »

Oh I know I wake up a few min before my alarm usually, but this habbit has to be created.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #5 on:** October 28, 2012, 06:56:12 PM »

They weren't limp-wristed pansies like modern people.

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #6 on:** October 28, 2012, 06:57:22 PM »

this is why children and women exist, hth

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #7 on:** October 28, 2012, 07:15:54 PM »

I was in AZ a week ago, I had a flight the day after- so I decided to make sure I knew how to make the alarm clock work, and that I could wake up as early as I needed to. So I set it up- went to bed. So there I was the next morning- three minutes before the alarm was set to go off- staring at the clock waiting....

I think if a person cares enough its pretty easy to wake up.

Yeti · « **Reply #8 on:** October 28, 2012, 09:06:21 PM »

Once the sun set there probably wasn't a whole lot to do so I'm guessing they all went to sleep pretty early. Makes waking up early much easier.

etiolate · « **Reply #9 on:** October 29, 2012, 02:16:53 AM »

Time and schedules as we know it didn't really come into play until sychronized time and that came more into play when trains became standard mass transit.

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #10 on:** October 29, 2012, 02:56:45 AM »

Churches and temples often take it upon themselves to wake everybody up at dawn EVEN THOUGH it is now the 21st century and everyone has fucking alarm clocks. Not that i'm bitter about living next to a bunch of Buddhist temples oh no

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #11 on:** October 29, 2012, 08:53:24 AM »

Quote from: etiolate on October 29, 2012, 02:16:53 AM

Time and schedules as we know it didn't really come into play until sychronized time and that came more into play when trains became standard mass transit.

Dude, thats the piece of information I was secretely wishing to get here.

I had this lingering memory that that the invention of "time" had something to do with transit etc. but couldn't quite remember. Thanks.

demi · « **Reply #12 on:** October 29, 2012, 08:55:01 AM »

Their wives woke them up with their mouth around their cock. Just how it should be.

ToxicAdam · « **Reply #13 on:** October 29, 2012, 09:59:57 AM »

Usually you had gout or some other unspeakable disease that didn't allow you more than 2 hours of consecutive sleep.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #14 on:** October 29, 2012, 12:08:52 PM »

Thanks for the insight. I'll definitely direct all future history questions to Lager now that I know he's an expert

king of the internet · « **Reply #15 on:** October 29, 2012, 12:57:26 PM »

How did they know what time to be at work before there were clocks? Shit must have been so confusing back then.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #16 on:** October 29, 2012, 01:08:06 PM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on October 29, 2012, 12:08:52 PM

Thanks for the insight. I'll definitely direct all future history questions to Lager now that I know he's an expert

Well I specialized in the history of Anti-Semitism actually, as you might imagine PD if you study history you don't study ALL history.

Yeti · « **Reply #17 on:** December 01, 2012, 10:14:13 PM »

Before alarm clocks there were knocker-upper's. Mary Smith earned sixpence a week shooting dried peas at sleeping workers windows. Limehouse Fields. London. . Undated. Photograph from Philip Davies' Lost London: 1870 - 1945.

(from imgur http://imgur.com/gallery/5O0Zn)

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #18 on:** December 01, 2012, 10:21:08 PM »

I'd knocker-upper, amirite guys?

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #19 on:** December 01, 2012, 10:24:24 PM »

BUT HOW DID MARY SMITH WAKE UP?!

Himu · « **Reply #20 on:** December 01, 2012, 10:40:52 PM »

Quote from: Joe Molotov on December 01, 2012, 10:21:08 PM

I'd knocker-upper, amirite guys?

Looks like it's too late going by that pic

Momo · « **Reply #21 on:** December 01, 2012, 10:47:51 PM »

Eh, my internal clock wakes me before my alarm even goes off. If you just wake up at a certain time enough it becomes habit.

recursivelyenumerable · « **Reply #22 on:** December 02, 2012, 12:13:34 AM »

Quote from: Eschaton on October 28, 2012, 06:58:28 PM

uh..... lol

(Image removed from quote.)

Im sure that most cities had clock towers or bell ringers to ring at dawn or later, at intervals.

Man that tower is badass, not quite walrus level of badass but almost

recursivelyenumerable · « **Reply #23 on:** December 02, 2012, 12:16:43 AM »

Quote from: Premium Lager on October 29, 2012, 08:53:24 AM

Quote from: etiolate on October 29, 2012, 02:16:53 AM
Time and schedules as we know it didn't really come into play until sychronized time and that came more into play when trains became standard mass transit.

Dude, thats the piece of information I was secretely wishing to get here.

I had this lingering memory that that the invention of "time" had something to do with transit etc. but couldn't quite remember. Thanks.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-time-to-keep-everything-from-happening-at-once,3564/

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #24 on:** December 02, 2012, 06:08:05 AM »

Quote from: Yeti on December 01, 2012, 10:14:13 PM

(Image removed from quote.)
Before alarm clocks there were knocker-upper's. Mary Smith earned sixpence a week shooting dried peas at sleeping workers windows. Limehouse Fields. London. . Undated. Photograph from Philip Davies' Lost London: 1870 - 1945.

(from imgur http://imgur.com/gallery/5O0Zn)

Man how did she get up on time

Barry Egan · « **Reply #25 on:** December 02, 2012, 07:32:06 AM »

Drink tons of water right before bed.

Don Flamenco · « **Reply #26 on:** December 02, 2012, 10:03:13 AM »

they slept fine and in a consistent pattern because they didn't have internet or TV

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #27 on:** December 02, 2012, 10:17:21 AM »

How do I not wake up for work on weekends? Jesus, Brain- shut the fuck off for a few days.

Don Flamenco · « **Reply #28 on:** December 02, 2012, 10:18:39 AM »

Quote from: MrAngryFace on December 02, 2012, 10:17:21 AM

How do I not wake up for work on weekends? Jesus, Brain- shut the fuck off for a few days.

same here. and if I go out and drink and get wasted till the wee hours of the morning, my brain still only gives me an extra hour-hour and a half.

Yeti · « **Reply #29 on:** January 13, 2013, 11:11:17 PM »

Another necro-bump!

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #30 on:** January 13, 2013, 11:18:50 PM »

I don't use an alarm. I wake up around 6am every weekday morning without fail.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #31 on:** January 13, 2013, 11:27:53 PM »

Quote from: Mr. Gundam on January 13, 2013, 11:18:50 PM

I don't use an alarm. I wake up around 6am every weekday morning without fail.

Does your internal clock adjust for weekends when you don't have to get up early, holidays, etc?

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #32 on:** January 13, 2013, 11:34:38 PM »

Chickens

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #33 on:** January 13, 2013, 11:36:44 PM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on January 13, 2013, 11:27:53 PM

Quote from: Mr. Gundam on January 13, 2013, 11:18:50 PM
I don't use an alarm. I wake up around 6am every weekday morning without fail.

Does your internal clock adjust for weekends when you don't have to get up early, holidays, etc?

Yeah, it actually does. And if I do wake up at 6am, I go right back to sleep until Lil' Gundam decides to get up at 8:30.

Yeti · « **Reply #34 on:** January 13, 2013, 11:39:50 PM »

What do you do for daylight savings time?

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #35 on:** January 13, 2013, 11:55:06 PM »

Quote from: Yeti on January 13, 2013, 11:39:50 PM

What do you do for daylight savings time?

I wake up?

I don't know, I just wake up. It's weird.

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Author Topic: How did people wake up on time for work (Read 3000 times)