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If you mean how did medieval people reckon the time, it was only very approximate and to the nearest hour. There is a relic of this in the modern French term "Quelle heure est-il?" and the German "Wie viel Uhr ist es?" for asking the time - both mean "What hour is it?".
Medieval people had absolutely no understanding of minutes or seconds, because such things could not be measured; hours were only roughly measured by dividing up the daylight period into twelve (so winter hours were shorter than summer hours). The position of the sun in the sky would provide a fairly good guide to the hour of the day.
With a huge number of churches, chapels and monastic sites across the landscape, the far-reaching sound of bells would also be a good guide to the hour. A medieval person might say "I was just ploughing the last furrow a little after the Compline bell" and everyone would understand what time was meant.
Even when the first mechanical clocks were developed, they only had an hour hand so minutes could still not be measured.
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