RE: First angle and Third angle / metric cl ock

Tim, list,

Swatch has been busy again! To commemorate the launch of the sputnik
satellite, they were going to sponsor an Amateur Radio (HAM) satellite,
with a advertisement for Swatch! (Amateur Radio rules prohibit it's use
for commercial purposes). And now we are to re-align the Prime Meridian
to SwatchLand? Stop it guys!

Alan KM6VV (On Santa Cruz time, 1969!)


Tim Goldstein wrote:

>
> We have already been beat to creating a new time. Swatch (the watch people)
> have a standard they call internet time. It even dispenses with time zones.
> Here is a piece from their website:
> INTERNET TIME
>
> an innovative, new unit of time, measured in units called ".beats" and
> created by Swatch, allows for no time zones, no geographical borders and
> more freedom
>
> Internet Time divides up the virtual and real day into 1000 ".beats". One
> Swatch .beat is the equivalent of 1 minute 26.4 seconds. BMT or Biel Mean
> Time is the universal reference for Internet Time via the creation of a new
> meridian located in Biel, Switzerland, the home and Headquarters of Swatch.
>
> A day in Internet Time begins at @000 Swatch .beats BMT (midnight UTC+1),
> which means that 12 noon in the current time system (UTC+1) is equivalent to
> @500 Swatch .beats.
>
> Internet time was founded on the 23rd of October 1998. For more information,
> check out the Internet Time section.
>
> Tim
> [Denver, CO]
>
> > Matt,
> > I'm with you... sounds great, nice and simple...
> >
> > So when do you start campaigning for this new "time" system???
> >
> > Lets start building clocks and hit the market early... if
> > nothing else it
> > would make a good project to burn up some of that new "Metric
> > Time" :-)
> >
> > Bryan
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