Keeping Time Without a Sun

At the height of the suns arc through the sky, we met beneath the cherry trees out in the orchard for shade and had lunch. A noontime tryst was in order after that, and then it was back to tending the trees!

-Passage in an ancient journal

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Our forebears are said to have kept time by the stages of the day. Morning, noon, night. These terms, now devoid of meaning, set the borders of their day and acted as a natural time piece of sorts. We, of course, lack such borders on our time, faced with the unchanging black sky as we are at all hours of the day every day.
Yet, curiously, these terms remain in use though the historical meaning is no longer relevant. Morning is the start of our day, and noon the middle. Night is perhaps the only one we can imagine even now, given it's description having to do with a lack of sunlight. Even so, ours is darker still than seen by our forebears, since we lack stars as well.
As for keeping time, most civilized areas will have a Water Clock, a form of Daemonforged time piece that keeps impeccable time. They come in many designs, some on the far side of artistic rather than practical, but all involve the Daemon imbued into the object pushing water through a track that passes by the hour numbers as it goes.

Type

Guide, Generic