I needed a little break from a ternary encoded display, so I went back to one of my old favourites. French Decimal Time 🇫🇷.

As a side note, since it is no longer DST in Europe and I'm the same timezone as the Swatch headquarters 🇨🇭, it's also actually the current valid time in .Beats (a.k.a. Swatch® Internet Time)! 🥳

#DecimalTime #DecimalWatch #Beats #InternetTime #WristCheck

Also, I think it's only PHP that added official support for the Swatch #InternetTime. I hope a new interest will spark in metric time / having one time/timezone.

@jann I've been a proponent for ISO8601 date format (yyyy-mm-dd) for more years than I can remember precisely because it's sortable and proceeds from most to least significant like other numbers. I also use a 24-hour clock whenever possible. But I never got into that "Internet Time".

https://www.timeanddate.com/time/internettime.html

#ISO8601 #InternetTime

What is Internet Time?

What is Internet Time, and how to convert between the time zones and beats.

Swatch Internet-Time Clock Doesn’t Miss a Beat

#clockhacks #beats #internettime #seeedxiao #synchronizeswatches #hackaday

-- Delivered by RssEverything service

hackaday.com/2023/11/27/swatch…

Swatch Internet-Time Clock Doesn’t Miss A Beat

The thing about human invention is that occasionally, two or more people think of an idea around the same time, and it’s difficult to determine who was first. Such is the case with Swatch&#82…

Hackaday
Swatch Internet-Time Clock Doesn’t Miss A Beat

The thing about human invention is that occasionally, two or more people think of an idea around the same time, and it’s difficult to determine who was first. Such is the case with Swatch&#82…

Hackaday
@blakespot A lot of the complaints were that you couldn't easily tell when someone might be working or not, but that has increasingly become less relevant. I feel like now is the ideal time for #InternetTime to finally take off.

My cat and her airplane ears, looking like a calico version of Toothless, eyeing the laptop between us:

"Sheesh, when will she ever hand over the laptop to me ...
I have #caturday photos to view!!!"

#CatsOfMastodon
#Cat
#Internettime

@ruari You need to get a watch with digital decimal time. #InternetTime #SwatchBeat

Oh, oh, oh! #crazyidea time!

Or rather, crazy time idea!

On the topic of #InternetTime, the main hurdle with adoption is that digital local-time clock and internet time are not at all similar in representation.

But what if we made an analog internet-time clock? As in, watch-face with internet-time numbers on it?
Instead of a 12 hour clock, we'd have a 500 beat clock.
There's the tiny challenge of porting the minute hand meaningfully, but we could easily space out 000-499 for the "hour" hand.

Wait. What do I call the time format that is not #InternetTime?

Local time? Legacy Time? 24:60 time?