节拍Swatch网络时间
.Beat Swatch Internet Time

原始链接: https://beats.wiki/

截至2025年7月1日晚上10点15分格林威治标准时间,一种名为Swatch® .Beats的新时间系统正在推广。与传统时间不同,.Beats采用单一的全球时间尺度——当前为[email protected],取消了时区和夏令时。 一天由1000个.Beats组成,每个.Beats持续1分钟26.4秒。这导致一年有365,000个.Beats。该系统旨在实现简单性和全球协调。 可以获取资源以了解更多信息并将.Beats转换为本地时间(beats.wiki/969.28),并且存在关于这种“互联网时间”概念的潜在优势和感知失败的讨论,包括“On The Media #15”和“Bad Ideas #64”等播客。

## Swatch 互联网时间:重温一个复古概念 一个 Hacker News 的讨论重温了 1998 年推出的 Swatch 互联网时间的概念,旨在简化全球计时。该系统将一天划分为 1000 个“.beats”(每个 86.4 秒),并以比尔平均时间(UTC+1)为基准,从而取消了传统时区。 一些人认为这可能有助于减少国际协调的复杂性,但许多评论员指出,无论使用什么系统,仍然需要了解相对的工作时间。另一些人强调了类似公制化努力的历史失败,并质疑其广泛应用的实用性。 讨论还涉及相关概念,如 UTC、十进制时间以及夏令时的持续挑战。有趣的是,该系统是与 Sega 的 *Phantasy Star Online* 相关联的营销噱头,并出现在 PHP 的日期格式化中。最终,共识倾向于认为这个想法很有趣,但不太可能取代现有系统。
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原文

Right now in your local timezone—GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)—it's Tuesday, July 1st 2025 at 10:15 PM.

Translated to Swatch® .Beats time, right now it's 2025-07-01 at precisely:

@969.28

Unlike your local time, its 2025-07-01@969.28 all over the world right now. There are no confusing time zones ordaylight savings time shifts to worry about.

There are exactly 1,000 .Beats in a day, making each .Beat precisely 1 minute and 26.4 seconds long.

If you'd like to know how many .Beats are in a year, just multiply 365 days by 1,000 beats/day to get 365,000 .Beats. Good luck figuring out how many seconds are in a year in your head.

If you'd like to meet somebody at @969.28 who doesn't know about .Beats yet, you can link them to beats.wiki/969.28 so they can see when @969.28 is in their local time.

You can also link them to a precise day and time, like for a meeting:


If you'd like to know more about .Beats, check out the official Swatch Internet Time page and the Wikipedia page for Swatch Internet Time. There's also a great podcast episode about this system: On The Media #15 - Internet Time. There's also a more pessemistic take at Swatch .Beat - The Failure of Internet Time - Bad Ideas #64.

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