Swatch Internet Time (@Beats)

[Yaya]

Internet Time/Beat Time is SO COOL! I just can't get over how it causes you to have to reframe the concept of "time" in your mind. Suddenly everyone is on the same page without time zones, etc...I think it would be confusing in a couple scenarios but for the purpose of connecting with others online it would be great.

Also here for the watch if it happens I would totally buy one! It makes me feel like those spy watches from Spy Kids but instead much simpler and they'd just show beat time lol

[xXStarBrite02Xx]

Has anyone tried to make a .beat time widget for KDE? I see links to ones for cinnamon and gnome on the wiki... I would step up to the plate and be the first, but I'm used to HTML and CSS, Qt is entirely out of my realm of expertise

[Nova]

Funny that.

While Melon recommends swatch .beat clock from F-Droid, I found this on Google Play.



I'm hesitant to try it since it's relatively new, created in September 2024 AFAIK, but from the looks of things it's a very basic app.

I'm wanting to try it solely to see if it has widgets...

[Melooon]

Melon recommends swatch .beat clock from F-Droid,

I do not recommend it; its a wiki someone else added it; you cant prove who; aaaaa don't put your android app blame on me (Feel free to add this alternative to the wiki too!)

I did actually try putting an app on Google Play recently and its EXTREMELY complicated; you have to get 20 different people to actively test your app on unique phones before they even allow it to go to google for review. So I would have reasonably high confidence in the safety of new Play apps ^^

[IndigoGolem]

I don't suppose anyone knows of an applet for this for Linux Mint MATE? I have seen the Cinnamon one but switching desktops seems like a lot of work just for this.

[hikatamika]

I was changing the way I internally date files for my website… (file-wise, dates are still rendered out YYYY-MM-DD style and Month, DD YYYY – HH:MM AM Z in text to reflect me currently living in the States) and…

I really wish Swatch Time, or, at least a metric time based in 1000, took off.

• A time-of-day measurement with one unit of measurement that stays the same is really attractive for filenaming. The beat time "960" suffixed onto a filename, looks, and makes sense as, Nine-Hundred and Sixty. It makes sense as 96% of a day. Even if it's a Swiss person's day and not mine.
• Comparatively, when I suffix files with "140840" it looks like One-Hundred-and-Fourty-Thousand Eight-Hundred and Fourty, even though it means 14:08:40.

I reckon it wasn't marketed very well, and, making the meridian in Switzerland all because it's the Swiss watch company didn't really help with adoption. I think if the concept was introduced with both local and internet beats, as in, "how far out of 1000 are you in a day YOUR timezone? That's your Local Beat." and "also Switzerland is now the internet timezone of the world! That is the standard beat. :3" It woulda prolly seen more adoption.

I am currently suffixing YYYYMMDD changelog and microblog files in my website source repository with their official, HikaTamika™-coined Local Beats, as they make more sense to me than a -HHMMSS suffix.

Edit: (Thought of more!)
All that to say, I think where Swatch Internet Time, or rather, Swatch Beats fumbled with regard to cultural adoption, was the focus on trying to be/replace UTC as the base timezone. UTC is UTC. UTC is good. I like UTC, even though its influence has colonialism to thank.

To me, where beats really shines is the units!! Not the starting point/timezone!