I actually used this when it was included in Phantasy Star Online on the Dreamcast! I got used to using it for coordination between players on different continents. made finding folks overseas easy.
Actually... the bad idea is the way our current system works. Any programmer knows that trying to deal with time zone conversion, daylight savings blah blah. Our time system was made by religious zealots and is seriously useless. I have no horse in this race (I don’t have a beat watch) but damn I wish this actually took hold.
No it wasn't. Gregorian calendar was just a correction of the Julian calendar made by the Romans. The system has very little to do with religious zealots.
I loved and used this. Had online classes in with ppl from West and East US, Ppl from the UK, I from Sweden, others from Denmark and Finland etc. With and without Summer/Winter time just showing up at the same time around the world for class was a thing. So, this was a great thing. Just come @420 and everyone showed up withing the 5 min margin.......
I actually loved this time format and really hoped it would catch on. Once you get it, it makes a lot of sense. A standard workday is 333.beats which is a third of a day. 20.beats is a nice break. ~30 minutes. 40.beats is a nice lunch break. ~1 hour. I go into the office @625 I leave the office @960 My coworker in Germany is available @400-720. Our schedules overlap @625-720. Let's schedule a chat @700.
I thing what the bad idea was thennthey tried to introduce the "beat"time, if it introduced in 2010 decade this would have more lucky to catch on in gaming environment.
Same. Some people were talking about Internet Time recently and I started to think about all of the games I used to play where we would use the in game world time or server time rather than the time IRL to arrange events... PSO was so fun.
The difficulty lies in the fact that people are dumb, they can live with both times...when you are online with gamers from around the world for example , all you have to do is know your virtual time to be with them, there is no need to conversion. Who cares who created it , where it is from... ? I would gladly have this watch on my computer screen, what harm would it cause?
I actually used this when it was included in Phantasy Star Online on the Dreamcast! I got used to using it for coordination between players on different continents. made finding folks overseas easy.
It is actually a great idea. It has no timezones and no summer/winter time. You can easyily coordinate livestreams and online games that way.
idk i've got swatch on my windows clock, it's 477.69 beats at the time i click "COMMENT"
Actually... the bad idea is the way our current system works. Any programmer knows that trying to deal with time zone conversion, daylight savings blah blah. Our time system was made by religious zealots and is seriously useless. I have no horse in this race (I don’t have a beat watch) but damn I wish this actually took hold.
I agree 100%
No it wasn't. Gregorian calendar was just a correction of the Julian calendar made by the Romans. The system has very little to do with religious zealots.
i agree
Still using it - it is a quite convenient insider thing.
I loved and used this. Had online classes in with ppl from West and East US, Ppl from the UK, I from Sweden, others from Denmark and Finland etc. With and without Summer/Winter time just showing up at the same time around the world for class was a thing. So, this was a great thing. Just come @420 and everyone showed up withing the 5 min margin.......
Abolished daylights savings - .Beat time the only alternate I could trust.⏳
I actually loved this time format and really hoped it would catch on. Once you get it, it makes a lot of sense.
A standard workday is 333.beats which is a third of a day.
20.beats is a nice break. ~30 minutes.
40.beats is a nice lunch break. ~1 hour.
I go into the office @625
I leave the office @960
My coworker in Germany is available @400-720.
Our schedules overlap @625-720. Let's schedule a chat @700.
It was a great idea.
I thing what the bad idea was thennthey tried to introduce the "beat"time, if it introduced in 2010 decade this would have more lucky to catch on in gaming environment.
This made it's way into a few games. My first introduction to it was Phantasy Star Online for the Dreamcast..
Same. Some people were talking about Internet Time recently and I started to think about all of the games I used to play where we would use the in game world time or server time rather than the time IRL to arrange events... PSO was so fun.
That not an ampersand. & is an ampersand.
I like the concept. I’m not saying it replaces customary time.
I used to have one until the band broke and the Swatch store does not have replacements.
The difficulty lies in the fact that people are dumb, they can live with both times...when you are online with gamers from around the world for example , all you have to do is know your virtual time to be with them, there is no need to conversion. Who cares who created it , where it is from... ? I would gladly have this watch on my computer screen, what harm would it cause?