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Swatch Internet Time (or Beat) all over again: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time This idea wa

• nodata 13y ago
  If it used Greenwich as 0 and there had been more users back then, it would have caught on.
• telmich 13y ago
  You are right. I actually like that approach as well, but that system had at least two major drawbacks: - being pushed like a marketing thingy for a specific company - not resembling hours/minutes I guess the latter point was crucial for it not being adapted. Or it was also too early (early internet time)
  • drdaeman 13y ago
    Not resembling traditional time notation is good thing IMHO, as one can't even accidentally confuse local time with non-local one.
• nsfmc 13y ago
  i recall that even as of ~2000 php3 had @beat support via its date() function. I just checked to see if it had been removed, but it's still (surprisingly) there. At least you can't say it failed for lack of ubiquity :)
  • telmich 13y ago
    do you know how to get SUT support in PHP? ;-)