It’s @319 and I should go to bed

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071218-swiss-time.pngSwatch Internet Time. Reminds me of the exciting times in the late 90s when it truly started becoming apparent that distance is meaningless. Wikipedia:

Internet Time is a concept introduced in 1998 and marketed by the Swatch corporation as an alternative, decimal measure of time. … Instead of hours and minutes, the mean solar day is divided up into 1000 parts called “.beats”[.]

The most distinctive aspect of Swatch Internet Time is its notation; as an example, “@248″ would indicate a time 248 .beats after midnight … or 4:57:07.2 UTC.

Despite the ridiculous trailing dot and the fact that there were no units smaller than a .beat, his eminence Nicholas Negroponte endorsed the system: “Internet Time is absolute time for everybody. Internet Time is not geopolitical. It is global. In the future, for many people, real time will be Internet Time.”

A testament to the success of this marketing ploy: “The clock applet in the GNOME desktop can be set to display time in this manner. PHP’s date() function has a format specifier ‘B’ which returns the Swatch Internet Time notation for a given time stamp. It is also used as a time reference on ICQ[.]“

Dec 18, 2007 | Comments | Tags: , , ,

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  1. Posted by Janet - 12/27/2007

    I read your article on the Constitutional defense of Megans Law dated 2002. Not all sexual offenders should have to register when they are released . If an offender did not sexually violate a child and the state and court system have said he or she has paid their time why should they have to go on a registry? Do we make former drug addicts who were convicted of selling drugs to children register when they get out? This is all a scare tactic. Most people are ignorant and uninformed of the difference between a sexual offender and a predator, I was. There are many who get out have true remorse and do not reoffend yet their label must follow them even if they never had parole or probation. I am a parent. If you are labled a predator yes I want you on the list. If you reoffend I want you on the list. This is the crime of the time especially in the state of Florida.

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