Re: [OT] Internet time (Biel Mean Time)
On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 20:21, Paul E Condon wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 06:39:21PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > What's the point of it?
> >
> > According to http://www.luvit.se/stefanp/lec_35_manual/swatch.html ,
> > "As a result Internet Time is the same all over the world."
> >
> > Well, gee, since Internet Time is equivalent to BMT, what's the
> > big deal about "same all over the world" and "the era of time zones
> > has disappeared"? The same would be true about GMT, American EST,
> > or any other time zone that people standardize on.
> >
> > In fact, long ago, the US military standardized on GMT as "Zulu
> > time", as opposed to "Lima", a.k.a. local time.
> >
> > They'd have had a fighting chance if they'd have stuck with GMT.
> > In fact, I think that a metric system based on GMT is a good idea,
> > since 1/100th of a "beat" is 0.864 seconds, which gives just as
> > good a granularity as the second.
> >
>
> BMT is, so far as I know, a marketing scam of Swatch. It has
> zero intellectual merit, and near zero following in the internet
> world. Existing, accepted time standards were developed as part of
> the development of astronomy. In astronomy research, an accepted
Thought so. I asked because Gnome Clock 2.2.2 has it, and wondered
if I was missing something.
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