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Home Time Zones Internet Time
Internet Time
By Steffen Thorsen
Internet Time was invented and marketed by the Swiss watch company
Swatch in the late 1990's.
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Internet Time system divides the day into 1000 ".beats".
Simple Internet Time .beat converter
Beat Date:[1 ][January ][2022]Beats:[ ][Show time]
New Time Unit - the .beat
Instead of dividing the virtual and real day into 24 hours and 60
minutes per hour, the Internet Time system divides the day into 1000
".beats". Each .beat is 1 minute and 26.4 seconds.
New Meridian
Internet Time is based on a new Meridian (as opposed to the Greenwich
Meridian). This new Meridian goes through Swatch's office in Biel,
Switzerland and is called the BMT Meridian.
BMT - the reference for Internet Time
Biel Mean Time (BMT) is another invention of Swatch. It is linked up
to the Central European Winter/Standard time, which is UTC + 1 hour.
When it is Midnight in BMT, the Internet Time is @000 beats, Noon is
@500 beats.
Time Unit Conversions
Beat Unit Conversion Unit Beat Conversion
1 .beat = 0.001 day 1 day = 1000 .beats
1 .beat = 0.024 hours 1 hour = 41.666 .beats
1 .beat = 1.44 minutes 1 minute = 0.6944 .beats
1 .beat = 86.4 seconds 1 second = 0.01157 .beats
Advantages of the Internet Time System
* It uses the normal decimal system, instead of the ancient 24
hour, 60 minute, 60 second system which makes time telling more
complicated.
* .beat time calculations are easy, @345 + 456 .beats = @801,
compared to e.g. 3:45:20 + 2 hours, 25 minutes, 45 seconds, where
the seconds, minutes and hours must all be added.
* No need for time zone conversions - the Internet Time is the same
everywhere.
Disadvantages of the Internet Time system
* The use of the Biel Meridian introduces an unwanted additional
Meridian - the Greenwich Meridian is the standard Meridian of the
world.
* Wrong use of mean time - The Biel Meridian is not at exactly 15
degrees east longitude, which it should have been if the BMT
(Biel Mean Time) should be 1 hour ahead of UTC / GMT (Greenwich
Mean Time)
* The second, and not the beat is the basic unit of time in the
International System of Units (and using .beats instead, would
complicate the system).
* The Internet Time system might seem like more of commercial
marketing attempt, than a real system.
* Milliday would be a more accurate name than beat.
Unlikely to Change
As the current hour/minute/second system is already widely adopted,
it is very unlikely that the Internet Time system will be able to
replace it, even on the Internet. There is already a common time
system without time zones and daylight saving time in wide use today
- UTC, which should be used instead.
Topics: Timekeeping, Time Zone
123691245781011
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)
23:01:39
Sunday, September 25, 2022
UTC is the common time standard across the world
More about UTC
In This Article
* Simple Internet Time .beat converter
* New Time Unit - the .beat
* New Meridian
* BMT - the reference for Internet Time
* Advantages of the Internet Time System
* Disadvantages of the Internet Time system
* Unlikely to Change
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