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belthesaryesterday at 7:31 PM1 replyview on HN

We tried that in 1998! See Swatch Internet Time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time


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mbirthtoday at 1:25 AM

I loved the idea. However, the main issue was that it completely ignored the date.

While it worked fine in Western Europe - as i.Beats were based on the “Biel Mean Time” = GMT+1, people in the US would e.g. wake up at @584 on March 7 and eat dinner @125 on March 8.