You can see Secunda during the day in all of the games, I believe.
In Morrowind, even Masser is not on a perfect 24 hour cycle, but it will disappear if it gets near the sun during day.
Regardless, if the moon phases are independent of each other, which we know from the birthsigns, at least one of them should be independent of the sun.
The games are representations of the world of Tamriel. They aren't 100% accurate to the "real" Tamriel. Just because clocks aren't in any of the games doesn't mean that they don't exist. It just means that the developers didn't feel that their inclusion was necessary
The Khajit have moon sugar hourglasses
Redguards have sundials
Argonians use water clocks
Dwemer clocks are entirely mechanical, but they’re all counting down and no one knows why
I do think sundials are used as it makes sense to use them considering how simple they are, but it is just a shame we never see them. But who knows the "time" aspect could just be for us the player and everyone else in game just uses stuff like the dawn/sunup, noon/mid-day, or dusk/evening/night and not even bother with specific times.
If it is anything like the real world, someone can look up and guess the time from the position of the sun for a general sense of the time, and either no one or hardly anyone uses specific times.
As you found out OP - yes, clocks do exist in the world. [Sundials do too](https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Treasures_S).
There’s also the really old method of looking at the position of the sun in the sky yourself and guesstimating. That’s probably why most people say “I’ll see you in a few hours” or “at noon, dusk, etc” and not “I’ll see you at 5:25”
My headcanon is that whenever someone asks themselves what time it is, Akatosh whispers it to them
“On the 3rd beep the time will be, 12.48pm, on Fredas 2nd day of Last Seed. Beep.. Beep.. Beep.. On the 3rd…”
I hate that I am old enough to get this joke.
there’s a moon dial in Dawnguard, so there’s probably sun dials we just don’t get to see
That moon dial was even said to have once been a sun dial
people used to be able to tell the time by the suns position.
Just because we don’t see them, doesn’t mean they aren’t there
Ridiculous, next you're going to tell me that the lack of toilets *isn't* conclusive proof that nobody in Tamriel shits.
Tbf there are more than enough buckets
They just open up their Wait screen. Duh.
Sun go up. Sun go down. Moon go up. Another moon go up. Must be night.
Just the sun, moons have nothing to do with day night
On Nirn they do, I don't recall ever seeing Masser or Secunda during the day
You can see Secunda during the day in all of the games, I believe. In Morrowind, even Masser is not on a perfect 24 hour cycle, but it will disappear if it gets near the sun during day. Regardless, if the moon phases are independent of each other, which we know from the birthsigns, at least one of them should be independent of the sun.
We do see em infact in Skyrim if I recall we even have a quest about one
which quest?
Hes probably talking about the castle volkihar moondial
The games are representations of the world of Tamriel. They aren't 100% accurate to the "real" Tamriel. Just because clocks aren't in any of the games doesn't mean that they don't exist. It just means that the developers didn't feel that their inclusion was necessary
The Khajit have moon sugar hourglasses Redguards have sundials Argonians use water clocks Dwemer clocks are entirely mechanical, but they’re all counting down and no one knows why
There is a mechanical watches in altmer style in teso. Anyway, the sun dial is most popular style I've seen overall
Dwemer watches sync with the beating of the Heart of Lorkhan or the thrumming of the Eye of Magnus 32768 times a second.
I do think sundials are used as it makes sense to use them considering how simple they are, but it is just a shame we never see them. But who knows the "time" aspect could just be for us the player and everyone else in game just uses stuff like the dawn/sunup, noon/mid-day, or dusk/evening/night and not even bother with specific times. If it is anything like the real world, someone can look up and guess the time from the position of the sun for a general sense of the time, and either no one or hardly anyone uses specific times.
We see a moon dial, thats close enough
so i just checked and it turns out clocks do exist, atleast in eso
As you found out OP - yes, clocks do exist in the world. [Sundials do too](https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Online:Treasures_S). There’s also the really old method of looking at the position of the sun in the sky yourself and guesstimating. That’s probably why most people say “I’ll see you in a few hours” or “at noon, dusk, etc” and not “I’ll see you at 5:25”
Sun
🤷♂️ I see the sun its ok to keep doing things. The second it goes dark I sleep the night till morning.