I have had discussions with Plurk many-a-times about how time should be handled. I am still in favour of no daylight savings time and a standardized time… While not perfect yet, internet time/BMT seems to just makes sense….
Internet Time is a “new” way to tell time, invented and marketed by the Swiss watch company Swatch. The current Internet Time is the same all over the World (no time zones or daylight saving time adjustments). BMT, another invention of Swatch, Biel Mean Time, which 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.
#1 by Garrek on December 30th, 2004 - 11:39 am
This actually makes sense to you? YOu did note the corperate overlordiness of the concept. The offical time is declared to be the time at the swatch offices in bern and we all just bend over and have wierd time. Cause I assure you, they’ve patented the watch movements nessecary to use this, and won’t liscense them cheap. more to the point, why change. I believ we should standardize watches and clocks absolutely, but using the current modle. That way not every one has to go out and get a friggin’ new watch. and as for people who can’t figure out the timezone shifts, fuck ‘em.