JayKay
Chieftain
I don't know if someone have already eared of an Internet Time Zone!!
This could really help to set MP games without the timezone difficulty!!
The Concept is simple: it's a program that coverts the current time (based on the time showed on your computer and the time zone selected in it) in an internet time equal to everyone everywhere!!
Here's the explanation:
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INTERNET TIME
There is a revolution taking place eliminating time-zones and geographical borders. It's called Internet Time, it's measured in .beats. Find out about it in this section of swatch.com
No Time Zones
No Geographical Borders
How long is a Swatch .beat? In short, we have divided up the virtual and real day into 1000 ".beats". One Swatch beat is the equivalent of 1 minute 26.4 seconds. That means that 12 noon in the old time system is the equivalent of @500 Swatch .beats.
Okay, so how can a surfer in New York, or a passenger on a transatlantic flight know when it is @500 Swatch .beats in Central Europe for example? How can the New York surfer make a date for a chat with his cyber friend in Rome? Easy, Internet Time is the same all over the world.(see converter)
How is this possible? We are not just creating a new way of measuring time, we are also creating a new meridian in Biel, Switzerland, home of Swatch.
Biel MeanTime (BMT) is the universal reference for Internet Time. A day in Internet Time begins at midnight BMT (@000 Swatch .beats) (Central European Wintertime). The meridian is marked for all to see on the façade of the Swatch International Headquarters on Jakob-Staempfli Street, Biel, Switzerland. So, it is the same time all over the world, be it night or day, the era of time zones has disappeared.
The BMT meridian was inaugurated on 23 October 1998 in the presence of Nicholas Negroponte, founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology`s Media Laboratory.
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P.S.: The program to calculate the internet time is the attached file!!
Happy MP Civing!!
This could really help to set MP games without the timezone difficulty!!
The Concept is simple: it's a program that coverts the current time (based on the time showed on your computer and the time zone selected in it) in an internet time equal to everyone everywhere!!
Here's the explanation:
___________________________________________________
INTERNET TIME
There is a revolution taking place eliminating time-zones and geographical borders. It's called Internet Time, it's measured in .beats. Find out about it in this section of swatch.com
No Time Zones
No Geographical Borders
How long is a Swatch .beat? In short, we have divided up the virtual and real day into 1000 ".beats". One Swatch beat is the equivalent of 1 minute 26.4 seconds. That means that 12 noon in the old time system is the equivalent of @500 Swatch .beats.
Okay, so how can a surfer in New York, or a passenger on a transatlantic flight know when it is @500 Swatch .beats in Central Europe for example? How can the New York surfer make a date for a chat with his cyber friend in Rome? Easy, Internet Time is the same all over the world.(see converter)
How is this possible? We are not just creating a new way of measuring time, we are also creating a new meridian in Biel, Switzerland, home of Swatch.
Biel MeanTime (BMT) is the universal reference for Internet Time. A day in Internet Time begins at midnight BMT (@000 Swatch .beats) (Central European Wintertime). The meridian is marked for all to see on the façade of the Swatch International Headquarters on Jakob-Staempfli Street, Biel, Switzerland. So, it is the same time all over the world, be it night or day, the era of time zones has disappeared.
The BMT meridian was inaugurated on 23 October 1998 in the presence of Nicholas Negroponte, founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology`s Media Laboratory.
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P.S.: The program to calculate the internet time is the attached file!!
Happy MP Civing!!
