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INTERNET TIME. What is a Swatch .beat? We have divided up the day into 1000 ".beats". So, one Swatch ".Beat" is equivalent to 1 Minute 26.4 Seconds. Why use Internet Time? Internet Time exists so that we do not have to think about timezones.
Let me introduce you to the Swatch Internet Time format! Instead of dividing the day into 24 hours, it divides it into 1000 .beat's. 6:00 AM becomes "@250", 11:27 PM becomes "@977" and so on! In addition to that, there are no timezones in Internet Time.
What you are looking at is called internet time, which is measured in 'beats', a way of measuring time made for the internet age. Just imagine: no "half-past"s or "quarter-to"s, AMs or PMs, or timezones. That's right: no timezones. How does it work?
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.
A Swatch watch showing .beat time in the bottom part of the display. During 1999, Swatch produced several models of watch, branded "Swatch .beat", that displayed Swatch Internet Time as well as standard time, and even convinced a few websites (such as CNN.com) to use the new format. [5] PHP's date() function has a format specifier, 'B', which returns the Swatch Internet Time notation for a ...
Internet Time is a new universal time created by Swatch. With this new way of timekeeping, there are no more time zones, as the entire world is happening at the same time, at the same moment. Internet Time divides the 24 hours of a day into 1000 units called beats. 1 beat represents 1 minute and 26.4 seconds.
Display .beat time on your iPhone, Apple watch or iPad. Convert your local 24-hour time to .beat time and vice-versa. Set an alarm notification for defined .beat times. Swatch Internet Time (.beat time) is a decimal time concept with no timezone introduced in 1998 by the Swatch Group.
