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       Response to yargo re: beat
       October 15th, 2017
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       Yargo, I totally agree about the problems with Swatch Internet
       time. It  frustrates me because I built a metric-time
       implementation in high school a few years before Swatch did their
       thing, and I was so proud of it. Then Swatch came and squished my
       cool teenage thing.
       
       In mine, 1 day was 1 unit. The epoch was unix epoch--because it
       was easy--aligned with GMT, with no time zones or daylight
       savings. I called it a quant (this part was cheesy) and deciquants
       or DQ counted through a 100 intervals of the day (about 14.4
       minutes). Days were just integer counters without respect to year
       or month or season or anything. I thought that those should be
       descriptors you could add on, like weather. Later I'd think of it
       in terms of metadata. Datetime as one float. 
       
       Regardless, Swatch Internet time was close to a cool idea. I do
       respect that they got rid of timezones. They never really
       addressed dates, just time, so that's short sighted too. I guess
       I don't have a lot of faith in the crazy mechanisms of a watch
       company.