Internet time on Cache Pages?

[+Allen_L]

Has anyone else noticed at the bottom of the cachepages there is something like this

 

Current Internet Time: 10/31/2002 @848.28

 

Where if you reload the numbers past the @ change?

 

Also does anyone know what it means?

 

[This message was edited by AllenLacy on October 31, 2002 at 12:01 PM.]

[azog]

Internet time is a marketing ploy by Swatch, to sell more watches.

 

Basically, it's a way to keep global time, without time zones. I fart in it's general direction.

 

http://www.timeanddate.com/time/internettime.html

 

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Do not answer a fool according to his folly, lest you be also be like him.

[+Stunod]

Wow...after reading the info on your link I totally agree. What a stupid concept.

 

I have no problem using hours, minutes and seconds instead of the "new" time unit known as a "beat" (0.001 days). But then again, I prefer gallons, feet and pounds, too.

 

But think of the jokes about someone with a watch that was off by 1.44 minutes...they would be a beat off!!

 

Ha! I kill me... (I miss ALF)

 

"Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand."

[+Sissy-n-CR]

Are we going to start using "stardate" as well? It's decimal, too. That way we don't have to mess with those pesky days, weeks, and months. Can you image the simplicity?

 

CR

 

~now taking tongue out of cheek~

 

-- Insert pithy aphorism here --

[+st_richardson]

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Originally posted by Stunod:

Wow...after reading the info on your link I totally agree. What a stupid concept.

 

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Ditto

[+Allen_L]

Stardate might be cool. But a current standard without Months, days, years, hours, minutes and seconds is the "MODIFIED JULIAN DATE" which says

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The MJD has been officially recognized by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), and by the Consultative Committee for Radio (CCIR), the advisory committee to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).

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[el10t]

The irony is that as users of GPS devices, geocachers should be well equipped to dealing with numbers that involve minutes and seconds.

 

Rich

mobilis in mobili

[+Prime Suspect]

quote:

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Originally posted by Stunod:

Wow...after reading the info on your link I totally agree. What a stupid concept.

 

I have no problem using hours, minutes and seconds instead of the "new" time unit known as a "beat" (0.001 days).

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Actually, it's not "beat", but ".beat" (dot-beat). That's almost as annoying as microsoft's ".net".

 

[+Mr. Snazz]

If we had started out using beats from the beginning, and some whacko watch company suggested that we switch to "hours", "minutes", and "seconds", wouldn't you all think that was stupid, too?

[GoPherStash]

It's a faze that will never catch on...just like the Susan B Anthony and the metric system

 

GoPherStash

[azog]

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Originally posted by Mr. Snazz:

If we had started out using beats from the beginning, and some whacko watch company suggested that we switch to "hours", "minutes", and "seconds", wouldn't you all think _that_ was stupid, too?

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Invalid point. Being a cacher, a basic knowledge of navigation (and by way of inference, time measurement) should reveal that the heavenly bodies don't obey a base-10 counting system.

 

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Do not answer a fool according to his folly, lest you be also be like him.

[+Mr. Snazz]

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Originally posted by azog:

Invalid point. Being a cacher, a basic knowledge of navigation (and by way of inference, time measurement) should reveal that the heavenly bodies don't obey a base-10 counting system.

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My point isn't invalid.

[azog]

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Originally posted by Mr. Snazz:

My point isn't invalid.

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You're asking why we don't call our hands "feet", or why we use the term "head" instead of "kazoo".

 

The point is that internet time is trying to re-standardize time-keeping in a numerical base (base-60 verses base-10) for which it cannot easily fit. Ask a farmer to re-schedule his crop management based on internet time, and I suspect you'd get a funny look.

 

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Do not answer a fool according to his folly, lest you be also be like him.

[+parkrrrr]

quote:

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Originally posted by Mr. Snazz:

quote:

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Originally posted by azog:

Invalid point. Being a cacher, a basic knowledge of navigation (and by way of inference, time measurement) should reveal that the heavenly bodies don't obey a base-10 counting system.

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My point isn't invalid.

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Sure it is. Everyone knows that base-60 is much more logical than base-10 for something that happens in a continuous manner.

 

After all, 60 is the first number that's divisible by every integer between 1 and 6. That makes it holier.

 

[+Mr. Snazz]

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Originally posted by azog:

You're asking why we don't call our hands "feet", or why we use the term "head" instead of "kazoo".

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No, I'm saying that folks, in general, are rejecting beats offhandedly because they are unfamiliar.

 

Obviously you've put a lot of thought into our current time system, and concluded that it makes sense. If we started off using beats, and you had been using beats for your entire life, would you have come to the same conclusions?

[+parkrrrr]

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Originally posted by Warm Fuzzies - Fuzzy:

After all, 60 is the first number that's divisible by every integer between 1 and 6. That makes it holier.

 

http://216.202.195.127/warm.gif

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Which brings us to 420, the least common multiple of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. That's deep, man. Anyone got some Chee-tos?

 

[+parkrrrr]

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Originally posted by Mr. Snazz:

No, I'm saying that folks, in general, are rejecting beats offhandedly because they are unfamiliar.

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I reject beats for a completely different reason. I reject them because of the stupid "@" sign, which indicates that they were designed by a marketroid who equated "@" with "Internet."

 

Metric time as a concept is actually pretty nice; it'd be nice if there were a decent standard for it.

 

[+Mr. Snazz]

...is that now the internet time mark has a leading zero.. eg. 0909.7

 

With the way beats work, you'll never have a digit in the thousandths place.

[Aladin Sane]

Of course Mr. Snazz, you meant thousands, not thousandths. You could have a digit three places to the right of the decimal point.

 

By the way, I miss your Fez.

[+Mr. Snazz]

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Originally posted by Aladin Sane:

Of course Mr. Snazz, you meant thousands, not thousandths. You could have a digit three places to the right of the decimal point.

 

By the way, I miss your Fez.

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Of course, I was expressing my ignorance of numbers

 

What Fez?

[Aladin Sane]

Didn't one of your previous Avitars show you wearing a Fez? That may be me displaying my ignorance of haberdashery.

[+Mr. Snazz]

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Originally posted by Aladin Sane:

Didn't one of your previous Avitars show you wearing a Fez? That may be me displaying my ignorance of haberdashery.

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Oh, that's right.

 

Actually, it was a blue and white shirt, which I had tied around my head because of heat.

 

[Micqn]

Boy oh boy oh boy.

 

Happy. Hunting.

[+creagerstonefamily]

I reject the idea because it was developed by a corporation for marketing purposes and one who planned to tramp all over the amateur 2meter spectrum by tossing a satellite to broadcast their "beat" crap out Mir's window.

[Kafeajo]

If you don't like what Swatch are doing, you can still use UDT (Universal Date Time) Which is the same thing but centered on the Greenwich Meridian, and without the marketing or @ sign. Unfortuantly, Swatch are the only people who make the watches if you want to use either.

 

The best time system is the one everyone else is using. If you want a chrono-revolution, good luck.

[+Renegade Knight]

Gee.

 

They have reinvented GMT time which accomplishes the same thing without "Beats"

 

Wherever you go there you are.

[King Pellinore]

Can all of this make the day longer? Oo, this is so confusing! My kazoo hurts!

 

King Pellinore