GMT is a step in the right direction, but I think they wanted a
decimal based system, and get rid of the complication of hours,
minutes, & seconds ....
On Mon, 5 May 2008 17:40:54 -0700, "Jim Langston"
<tazmaster@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Steve Giannoni wrote:
>> Yes, the Sun sets at a different Internet time in different places. So
>> what ?! ...
>>
>> You might want the program as a matter of interest.
>>
>> On Mon, 5 May 2008 14:44:31 -0700 (PDT), Mensanator
>> <mensanator@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>> On May 5, 4:22 pm, Steve Giannoni <casagiann...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>> The Swatch Co.of Biel (Sp?) Switzerland has proposed a new time
>>>> system where the day is divided into a thousand equal periods or
>>>> "Beats".
>>>
>>> That'll fly.
>>>
>>>> The
>>>> Internet time as defined by Swatch is the same everywhere, which in
>>>> of itself is a GREAT leap forward.
>>>
>>> When you can make the sun set at the same time everywhere, then
>>> you'll have something. What's the difference between saying
>>> "there's a six hour local time difference between Chicago & London"
>>> and saying "the sun sets at xxxx in London but at yyyy in Chicago"?
>>>
>>>> E-mail for a copy of my program for
>>>> computing Internet time from your computer's time.
>>>
>>> Why the **** would I want that?
>>>
>>>> casagiann...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>And what's wrong with "0700 GMT"? Everyone uses GMT then it's the same
>world wide. Just changing the name from GMT to Beats is just going to
make
>things worst.
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