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	Internet time
		Internet time was a common catchphrase that originated during the late-1990s Internet boom.
		Internet time is also the name for a concept marketed by the Swatch corporation as an alternative measure of time.
		Swatch's "Internet time" appears to be infrequently used, except in connection with Swatch's marketing efforts, or in connection to some niche applications.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/in/Internet_time.html (562 words)

	Swatch Internet Time - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Swatch Internet Time is a concept introduced in 1998 and marketed by the Swatch corporation as an alternative, decimal measure of time.
		The most distinctive aspect of Swatch Internet Time is its notation; as an example, "@248" would indicate a time 248.beats after midnight, equivalent to a fractional day of 0.248 CET, or 4:57:07.2 UTC.
		The timescale was announced on October 23, 1998, in a ceremony attended by Nicolas G. Hayek, President and CEO of the Swatch Group, G.N. Hayek, President of Swatch Ltd., and Nicholas Negroponte, founder and then-director of the MIT Media Lab.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time (921 words)

	Internet Time Dockling
		Standard time in the US Standard time in time zones was instituted in the U.S. and Canada by the railroads on 18 November 1883.
		Before then, time of day was a local matter, and most cities and towns used some form of local solar time, maintained by some well-known clock (for example, on a church steeple or in a jeweler's window).
		Standard time in time zones was not established in U.S. law until the Standard Time Act of 1918 enacted on March 19.
	informagen.com /InternetTime (1400 words)

	Swatch Internet Time - Helionica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		W Swatch Internet Time zamiast podziału dnia na godziny, minuty i sekundy, 24-godzinny dzień jest podzielony na 1000 tzw.
		Nazwa "Biel Mean Time" jest myląca, gdyż rzeczywisty południk w Biel wynosi 7°15'E. Podstawową jednostką miary czasu w SI jest sekunda, a nie.beat, co wprowadza zamieszanie w obliczeniach naukowych.
		Swatch wprowadził na rynek szereg modeli zegarków z pomiarem czasu SIT (obok tradycyjnego) i zachęcił wiele witryn internetowych do używania nowego formatu; jest on też używany w komunikatorze ICQ (jest to dogodne w rozmowach między osobami z różnych części świata) i w niektórych grach online wymagającyh jednoczesnego udziału osób z różnych stref czasowych.
	helionica.pl /index.php/Swatch_Internet_Time (430 words)

	The Beeline - Hivelights: Internet Time
		Basically, the Swatch Beat is a unit of time that ignores time zones and geographical boundaries.
		Swatch didn't just create a new way of measuring time, they also established a new time meridian in Biel, Switzerland.
		The Internet Time meridian is marked for all to see on the front of Swatch's headquarters in Biel.
	bton.com /sidebar/time.html (243 words)

	Swatch "Internet Time" - Scam or Stupidity? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Swatch sells a watch that tells "Internet Time", and in my opinion they are only preying on the ignorance of the masses, to make a buck.
		"Internet Time" is purely an invention of Swatch.
		Internet time is displayed by @ and three digits, ranging from @000 to @999.
	hea-www.harvard.edu /~fine/opinions/swatch.html (677 words)

	Watch Report \| Swatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Internet Time does away with time zones, and with the basically arbitrary units of 60 and 24.
		Internet Time is expressed by the number of beats proceeded by an "at" (@) symbol.
		Time zones, on the other hand, allow me to get a relative sense of time so I can schedule meetings at times that are convenient for all parties.
	www.watchreport.com /swatch/index.html (1777 words)

	Decimal Time - Time of Day
		Although there have been decimal time proposals which are based upon decimally dividing other fractions of the day (1/20, 1/24, 1/25, 1/40), most divide the day by 10, 100, 1000, etc. When used on this site, decimal time of day refers specifically to the representation of the fractional day.
		Internet Time uses the fractional day for standard (winter) time in Biel, Switzerland, which is one hour ahead of GMT/UTC, so it is not synchronized with other fractional days in use.
		Thus, 00:00 midnight in Switzerland (23:00 UT) is @000, noon is @500, etc. Swatch claims that Internet Time is based on the meridian passing through Biel, or "Biel Mean Time" (BMT), but this town is actually about half-way between the true meridian for this time zone (CET) and the Prime Meridian (UTC).
	www.decimaltime.hynes.net /times.html (400 words)

	What is Internet Time?
		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).
		Internet Time is based on a new Meridian (as opposed to the Greenwich Meridian).
	www.timeanddate.com /time/internettime.html (420 words)

	Internet Time
		Swatch AG has declared there is a new meridian right on the facade of their international headquarters, and invented something called "internet time".
		InternetTime at least addresses a perceived problem: If we standardize to one time (like UTC), then somebody is living in the "right" time zone, and the rest of the world are living in the "wrong" time zone.
		Swatch time, to me, does seem like a good idea and if we ever start living on other planets or in the dead of space, we are going to need a universal time system that isn't based on an Earth-borne timezone.
	c2.com /cgi/wiki?InternetTime (1147 words)

	Swatch Internet Time (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Although Swatch does not specify units smaller than one.beat, third-party implementations have extended the standard by adding "centibeats" or "sub-beats" as a decimal fraction, for extended precision: @248.000.
		Its novelty and the usage of the decimal time system makes it more attractive and simpler to use for some people than the traditional Babylonian system of time reckoning (24 hours of 60 minutes of 60 seconds).
		The proposal timescale was announced October 23, 1998, in a ceremony marked by the presence of Nicolas G. Hayek, President and CEO of the Swatch Group, G.N. Hayek, President of Swatch Ltd., and Nicholas Negroponte, founder and director of the MIT Media Lab.
	swatch-internet-time.kiwiki.homeip.net.cob-web.org:8888 (759 words)

	Do you have the 'Internet time'? \| Tech News on ZDNet
		Internet Time was developed by Switzerland's Swatch AG (Internet time converter), a unit of Swatch Group, in response to what its leader, Nick Hayek Jr., saw as an Internet foible: Twenty-four time zones made it difficult to say something takes place at one instant.
		Internet Time is essentially Central European Time, where Biel is located, broken up with a mathematical formula -- all the minutes in a regular day divided by 1,000.
		Janson's enthusiasm for Internet Time started waning recently, however, when he discovered that his watch is running three beats behind the official Swatch Internet Time, a mistake he attributes to bad watch batteries.
	news.zdnet.com /2100-9595_22-525221.html (1437 words)

	Conference Center
		Internet Time is global time for a cyberworld.
		Time at the Swatch headquarters in Biel, Switzerland.
		Swatch is proud to be a partner of the Junior Summit, presented by the
	www.spring.net /yapp-bin/public/read/internet/32 (631 words)

	Swatch Internet Time Converter
		Internet Time, sviluppato dalla Swacth (chi altri avrebbe potuto!), è un innovativo concetto di tempo senza fusi orari né delimitazioni geografiche.
		Tutto questo è possibile perché la Swatch a creato un nuovo meridiano a Biel, Switzerland, sede della Swatch.
		Il giorno in Internet Time comincia a mezzanotte BMT (@000 Swatch Beats) (Central European Wintertime).
	web.freepass.it /vista/it/converter.html (151 words)

	iTime Screenshot by Skynergy: (skynergy, internet, time, swatch) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Internet time is a standard created by Swatch.
		One Swatch beat is the equivalent of 1 minute 26.4 seconds.
		So, it is the same time all over the world, be it night or day, the era of time zones has disappeared.
	www.fileboost.net /directory/internet/utilities/itime/005608/screenshot.html (260 words)

	Free Swatch Downloads
		DS Clock is a digital desktop clock that displays variable date, time, and time zone information built from the format string.
		You can select any combination of date and time, pick custom colors and fonts, set custom sound to play at the top of the hour, etc. DS Clock also allows you to show a tool tip window with upcoming reminders of Calendarscope and supports Swatch Internet Time and Stopwatches.
		A powerful time converter is also included to let you enter any time in any city and see the corresponding time in all the other cities.
	www.filesweb.com /swatch (1479 words)

	Swatch - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Swatch is a brand of quartz watches (some available in Automatic) produced by The Swatch Group Ltd. Swatch was originally intended to re-capture entry level market share lost by Swiss manufacturers during the aggressive growth of Japanese companies such as Seiko in the 1960s and 1970s.
		The name "Swatch" is often misconstrued as a contraction of the words "Swiss Watch", but Nicolas Hayek, the Chairman of the Swatch Group, affirms that the original contraction was "Second Watch" -- the new watch was introduced with a new concept of watches as casual, fun, and relatively disposable accessories.
		Swatches enjoyed their peak popularity in the United States during the mid-1980s, when a series of "Swatch Stores" were founded for the express purpose of selling Swatches.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Swatch (462 words)

	Wired News: Time for a Change?
		Swatch made a name for itself by marketing garishly colorful watches that became the rage of schoolchildren in the 1980s.
		For the concept to succeed, Swatch would have to win the endorsement of a worldwide body of standards-keepers, whose efforts are coordinated by the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM) in Sèvres, France.
		Indeed, official time zones were not needed, beyond those set by local governments, until the advent of railroads and telegraphy in the mid-19th century.
	www.wired.com /news/culture/0,1284,16573,00.html (587 words)

	Swatch Internet Time Converter And Display
		This converter, courtesy of Swatch, determines the time in ".beats" (as opposed to other means of time such as minutes and seconds in the time zones established in the UTC system), the measurement for time in the Internet time scale, devised by the international timepiece giant, Swatch.
		So, according to Swatch, it is the same time all over the world, be it night or day, the era of time zones has disappeared.
		Enter your continent, and closest location for a time zone, then enter the time you desire converted to Internet time, or the Internet Time you desire converted to conventional time.
	www.csgnetwork.com /csgbmtcvt.html (379 words)

	Swatch Internet Time (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		'''Swatch Internet Time''' is a concept marketed by the Swatch corporation as an alternative measure of time.
		If it were to use UTC, it would match the Time of the UK during winter, but would not match on any important territories during summer.
		No explicit format was provided for dates, although the Swatch Web site displays the Gregorian calendar date in the order day-month-year, separated by periods and prefixed by the letter d (d31.01.99).
	swatch-internet-time.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (687 words)

	CNN - Internet Time: Will the 'beat' go on? - February 25, 1999
		Internet Time is the same everywhere in the world
		Swatch says it had 40 million hits on its Internet Time home page in December, and 30,000 downloads of free software that lets you count Internet beats on your desktop.
		For Yann Gamard, Swatch president and CEO, such a question is slightly beside the point.
	www.cnn.com /TECH/computing/9902/26/t_t/internet.time (470 words)

	Swatch Internet Time Converter
		Internet Time, a new global concept of universal time, is an elegant solution from
		Swatch divides the virtual and real day into 1000 beats; one Swatch beat is the equivalent of 1 minute 26.4 seconds.
		Swatch provides a handy time converter that helps you get used to the idea of Internet Time.
	www.help4web.net /adds/swatch.html (288 words)

	Internet Time
		It is the time at the British Royal Observatory in Greenwich England.
		And the idea of using the time in England to represent the time here is, well, unappealing.
		Still, internet time may be an example of emotion triumphing over reason.
	www.jamesshuggins.com /h/tek1/internettime.htm (1201 words)

	SWATCH Internet Time Server Info
		Swatch provides desktop clocks for PC and MAC, but not Unix.
		It's a time-zone-less time standard that Swatch unveiled at the Jr.
		Hackers don't tend to conform to the 9-5 ethic, and I suppose the implication is that in the near future (now?), the rest of the world might not either.
	xenia.media.mit.edu /~cwren/InternetTime/info.html (507 words)

	Swatch pushes Internet time (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Internet Time divides the day into 1,000 'beats', each equivalent to one minute and 26.4 seconds.
		The idea being that the time is always the same wherever you are in the world.
		Swatch confirmed to 'Newswire' that it will launch Internet watches in the UK in the new year.
	www.vnunet.com /articles/print/2102754 (282 words)

	Swatch This
		When the Swatch Group Ltd. added the first digital watch to its purely analog collection a year and a half ago, the company generated worldwide attention by introducing a whole new outlook on time.
		Today, measuring time in beats is a function that's available on all of Swatch's digital watches.
		This technology, called Swatch Access, is already being used in 30 countries -- at ski resorts, at museums, at various events, and for public transport.
	www.fastcompany.com /online/34/flash1.html (365 words)

	Swatch's First Digital
		Swatch's first digital watch – the Swatch Beat – signals a new era for the brand as well as the start of Swatch Internet Time, a new global concept of time.
		Swatch chose to enter the digital market with the assistance of the Junior Summit, a gathering of youngsters at the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
		Because the new system has no time zones or geographic borders, you can arrange to meet someone in cyberspace at a specified Internet Time, and that time is the same worldwide.
	www.professionaljeweler.com /archives/articles/1999/feb99/0299tn5.html (208 words)

	Message Forum: Swatch Internet Time
		Swatch decided to make meeting on the Internet a bit easier by introducing a new time concept: Instead of 24 hours, you have 1000 ".beats".
		This new time, called Internet Time (IT) is the same all over the world, regardless of time zones.
		One thing IT is not very good at, since it's a global time, is showing what time of day it is where you are located.
	www.rinkworks.com /rinkforum/view.cgi?post=27824 (412 words)

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