.Beat Swatch Internet Time
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.Beat Swatch Internet Time
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Re: .Beat Swatch Internet Time
#2Swatch® Internet Time, or .beat time, is a decimal time concept introduced in 1998, dividing the day into 1,000 ".beats" rather than hours and minutes. It eliminates time zones by anchoring to "Biel Mean Time" (UTC+1). One beat equals 86.4 seconds, with the time written as @000 to @999
Re: .Beat Swatch Internet Time
#3The swatch.com website still shows @beats in the upper left corner.
I am unsure whether Swatch still markets watches with digital displays.
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#4Fun!
Not sure if it's a bug, but for the date+time permalink at the bottom, the displayed link changes but the underlying href is locked to 7 months ago
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#5Since humans still prefer to work in daylight and sleep in darkness, even without timezones you still need to have extra information in addition to "what time is it" to figure out if Steve in Australia will be awake at @700 or asleep...
Maybe when the nuclear winter makes it dark all the time, or forces us all to live underground, then we can abolish timezones.
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#6Since humans still prefer to work in daylight and sleep in darkness, even without timezones you still need to have extra information in addition to "what time is it" to figure out if Steve in Australia will be awake at @700 or asleep... Maybe when the nuclear winter makes it dark all the time, or forces us all to live underground, then we can abolish timezones.
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Re: .Beat Swatch Internet Time
#7This was a missed opportunity to call it netric time.
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#8This always felt like a marketing gimmick. I've never seen it actually used for anything, unlike UTC.
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#9Fun fact, PHP has built in support for Swatch Internet Time with it's "B" format token.
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#10This was a missed opportunity to call it netric time.
Wait is that available? Best clock would be UTC + decimal time anyway, netric time is a good name for that.
Decimal time: you divide the day into powers of tens, a 'deci' is 2.4 hours, a 'centi' is 14.4 ~= 15 minutes, a 'mili' is 1.44 minutes ~= 86 seconds and so on.
Great system with convenient lengths, and easy to add duration + date, and convert between different units.