24 hour clock through history

[Unoriginalname]

I don't mean this to be a strict exegetical question but just a more general historical question. Were "hours" throughout time, and particularly to the region where the biblical drama took place rough 1/24ths of a day? Also were hours measured the same way throughout the biblical narrative?

 

[SRoper]

My understanding is that generally the time from sunrise to sunset was divided into twelve hours. These hours would necessarily be of different length in different seasons. The Greeks would sometimes divide the entire day into twenty-four hours.

As an aside, saying "twenty-four hour day" is redundant as hours were defined in terms of days not days in terms of hours. It wasn't until our modern timekeeping that we have re-defined what an hour is.