---------------------------------------- Response to yargo re: beat October 15th, 2017 ---------------------------------------- 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.