Internet Time

[The mysterious Mr. 4m]

For easy international online meeting (chat, gaming, etc...): - http://www.swatch.com/internettime/home.php

[KadaverJack]

Total nonsense imho. I prefer UTC, that's at least easy to convert.

[tChr]

Swatchg interent time was a great effort.. it should have been immediatly accepted as a new worldwide standard, but of cource it wasnt

[KadaverJack]

Swatchg interent time was a great effort.. it should have been immediatly accepted as a new worldwide standard, but of cource it wasnt

Why? Use Unix time! That's a standard

[tChr]

Swatchg interent time was a great effort.. it should have been immediatly accepted as a new worldwide standard, but of cource it wasnt

Why? Use Unix time! That's a standard

Its not really very good for hunam to human information exchange

[KadaverJack]

Its not really very good for hunam to human information exchange

neither is the so called "internet time"...

[tChr]

Its not really very good for hunam to human information exchange

neither is the so called "internet time"...

Then you have missed the point to an impressive degree. The whole point about "beats" is to make it easier to communicate times over time zones, as i has no time zones, also the separation of the day into 1000 beats makes sense. Our method of calculating time made sense in earlier times, but its hell to work with.

The main point is that some time of the day.. say 700 beats is the same time no matter where you are, so If I tell someone in the US I'm going to call them at 700 beats, it will be the same time for both of us.

[esteel]

http://www.decimaltime.hynes.net/metric.html

[KadaverJack]

Then you have missed the point to an impressive degree. The whole point about "beats" is to make it easier to communicate times over time zones, as i has no time zones, also the separation of the day into 1000 beats makes sense. Our method of calculating time made sense in earlier times, but its hell to work with.

Nope, i haven't missed the point. My point is: you want to change the definition of time for about 6 billion people. UTC is a much more convenient universal time format, since you just need to add/substract a few hours.
And that time format just devides a day 1000 beats, that's 86.4 sec. per beat, but it doesn't define smaller intervals, so it's use seems pretty limited to me...

The main point is that some time of the day.. say 700 beats is the same time no matter where you are, so If I tell someone in the US I'm going to call them at 700 beats, it will be the same time for both of us.

Same goes for UTC or Unix time

[The mysterious Mr. 4m]

I was just browsing stone-old bookmarks and re-found this.

EDIT: So whats better? Unix Time or UTC?