n00b question

[Fojar]

what exactly are beats, lol



sorry

[Sedyne]

Well it's a time system. It helps us keep track of what we call "internet time."

I'm unsure of how it works, all I know is it is internet time that is allways the same around the world. =P but thats what it is anyway

[LollipopLolita]

Internet Time is a "new" way to tell time, invented and marketed by the Swiss watch company Swatch. The current Internet Time is the same all over the World (no time zones or daylight saving time adjustments).

Theory
New time unit - the .beat
Instead of dividing the virtual and real day into 24 hours and 60 minutes per hour, the Internet Time system divides the day into 1000 ".beats". Each .beat is 1 minute and 26.4 seconds.
New meridian
Internet Time is based on a new Meridian (as opposed to the Greenwich Meridian). This new Meridian goes through Swatch's office in Biel, Switzerland and is called the BMT Meridian.
BMT - the reference for Internet Time
BMT, another invention of Swatch, Biel Mean Time, which is linked up to the Central European Winter/Standard time - which is UTC + 1 hour. When it is Midnight in BMT, the Internet Time is @000 beats, Noon is @500 beats.
Time unit conversions
Beat Unit Conversion Unit Beat Conversion
1 .beat = 0.001 day 1 day = 1000 .beats
1 .beat = 0.024 hours 1 hour = 41.666 .beats
1 .beat = 1.44 minutes 1 minute = 0.6944 .beats
1 .beat = 86.4 seconds 1 second = 0.01157 .beats

Advantages of the Internet Time system
It uses the normal decimal system, instead of the ancient 24 hour, 60 minute, 60 second system which makes time telling more complicated.
.beat time calculations are easy, @345 + 456 .beats = @801, compared to e.g. 3:45:20 + 2 hours, 25 minutes, 45 seconds, where the seconds, minutes and hours must all be added.
No need for time zone conversions - the Internet Time is the same everywhere.

[Fojar]

oh okay...


how does that work with my heaven punisher than? o_O