With regards to days, weeks and months, Golarion cleaves quite close to the real world. Does this extend to telling the time within a given day? Can you say "I'll meet you tomorrow at 10 o'clock," and expect to be understood? Do clocks exist in the more technologically advanced nations? What methods do people use in marking time (hourly temple bells for example, as in the Forgotten Realms setting)?
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I personally like using the canonical hours, not because of any religious content, but because it was the commonplace way of telling time in the Western world until the Renaissance or later.
There are clocks, however. They just aren't common, and watches are definitely luxuries.
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We generally avoid having events occur at exact hours unless they're on a schedule not tracked by humans. Clocks DO exist on Golarion, down to and including pocketwatches, but big clocks are relatively rare and the smaller the clocks get, the rarer they are. So... Golarion's cultures are not nearly as time obsessed as modern cultures.
As a general rule when folks agree to meet, it's at things like "sunset" or "noon" or the like, or if they're in a city with a clocktower or two, they can agree to meet at specific times (which are often announced by criers or bells or the like).
Thanks James, that's kind of what I figured. Do the clocks that do exist track time in the same way as we do on Earth? Do people say "o'clock"?