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Reminds me of Swatch's "Internet Time" from the 90's - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time Al
by maltalex 5y ago
Reminds me of Swatch's "Internet Time" from the 90's - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time
Also, obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/
- hhebbo 5y agoThe issue with Internet Time is that it used a completely new approach of time. It's hard to know what 965 means in our local time. The idea here is to simply keep the 24 hours, 60 minutes, 60 seconds and add UTC to that making the clock showing both local and global times. And then rotate UTC according to the location which then unifies the reading of time everywhere. Something Internet Time didn't do.