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Response to yargo re: beat | |
October 15th, 2017 | |
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Yargo, I totally agree about the problems with Swatch Internet | |
time. It frustrates me because I built a metric-time | |
implementation in high school a few years before Swatch did their | |
thing, and I was so proud of it. Then Swatch came and squished my | |
cool teenage thing. | |
In mine, 1 day was 1 unit. The epoch was unix epoch--because it | |
was easy--aligned with GMT, with no time zones or daylight | |
savings. I called it a quant (this part was cheesy) and deciquants | |
or DQ counted through a 100 intervals of the day (about 14.4 | |
minutes). Days were just integer counters without respect to year | |
or month or season or anything. I thought that those should be | |
descriptors you could add on, like weather. Later I'd think of it | |
in terms of metadata. Datetime as one float. | |
Regardless, Swatch Internet time was close to a cool idea. I do | |
respect that they got rid of timezones. They never really | |
addressed dates, just time, so that's short sighted too. I guess | |
I don't have a lot of faith in the crazy mechanisms of a watch | |
company. | |