I don´t even remember how internet time works............100 beats per minute, or some such nonsense. I could never see any use for it, ...... I would never know what the time was.
I generally just need to know what time it is where I´m sitting. Normal time :)
internet time has no meaning for me. I rather have one (or more, to look at differn´t timezone´s) clocks with normal time.
I think it´s a patently ridiculous notion. <BR>How could it possibly MEAN anything to one? <BR>Most human beings have a hard enough time (pun intended) with judging the 24 hour day as it is. <BR>It´s simply a promotion of Swatch Inc. to draw attention to itself. <BR>Changing the meridian from Greenwich Mean Time to their "home" in Switzerland? <BR>Give me a friggin´ break. <BR>What really kills me is how ANYONE would begin to take it seriously. <BR>After all, you change something when the old way doesn´t work, or if the standards aren´t universal. <BR> <BR>The only thing wrong with ´world´ time is the notion of ´Daylight Savings Time´. Worked fine when we were an agrarian society, but now it´s become rediculous for anything other than employers looking to squeeze another hour of so called productive daylight out of their employees.
Naw, BruB - I just sound that way when I´m on my soapbox... {:p
I enjoyed a certain ´cartoon family´ when their show sent up the metric system with their clock that went to 10 :)
My friend Steve was really big in to a 3D chat/environment/world building type program called Active Worlds. It´s basically a 3D environment where you have an avatar and you go around talking to people and "building" thinkgs. Well, they used what they refered to as a "world time" or "internet time" or something like that, I´m not exactly sure of the terminology. But getting to the point, (it´s about time, nikuki, get on with it!) they just took a time zone that´s like out in the atlantic, or in greenland or something, and made it Active Worlds time, so that you could tell other ppl to meet you at certain times, Active World time (or whatever they actually called it). Then there wasn´t any confusion as to when to meet, or when things would happen. I remember that the Active Worlds time was 2 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time (New York City time). This made sense to me, but I don´t know about internet time, I think that somewhere along the lines it may have had they same inplications in mind, but no one really uses it--at least that I know of.
i just talked to Steve and he said that they called their time zone VRT "Virtual Reality Time"
nikuki....VRT makes sense........it´s just another time zone, so to speak. Meet me online at 3pm VRT, I know that 3pm VRT is 6pm here........ <BR>But what if I were to say meet me online at 90000 beats? LOL
Ok, that´s pretty much what I thought the outcome would be. I can´t find a use for it either. With that in mind, I´ve found something much better! I´d like to present a new concept in time: NicksTime! If you go by NicksTime, it´s always happy hour - never feel guilty about drinking a beer again!! If you tell your wife you´ll do something "in a second", you´ll never be wrong if you use NicksTime - since a second lasts as long as you want it to! To me this sounds more useful than Internet Time. <BR> <BR>And Elwin - don´t get me started on the lameness that is Daylight Savings Time. I grew up in Hawaii where they didn´t practice such ridiculousness.
OK, now see, Nick - yours is a time system I can understand. As a matter of fact, I´ve been on NicksTime for years now and didn´t know it... <BR>{:p
If you wanna see some really screwed up time zones, come visit southern Indiana. My aunt lives there and There is a line separating times zones near where she lives. They don´t know any names of time zones, they only deal with what they call "fast time" and "slow time". <BR>It was really weird becasue my uncle would literally get to work a half an hour before he left his house because of the time zones. Which means, of course, that it took him an hour and a half to get home. <BR>To make matters even worse for the poor hardworking American citizens, one of the time zones changes for daylight savings time and the other doesn´t! Sometimes they are on the same time as us Ohioans, and the rest they are on Central Standard Time. So, things get really hectic around there about the time of day. <BR>My grandmother tried to explain Eastern and Central Standard Time Zones to my aunt and it basically ended up in a shouting match with my aunt screaming, "I just want to know if it´s fast time or slow time!".
We don´t have daylight savings but every state below us (East coast of Australia) does. Causes confusion when going to the best beaches (they are on the border of my state and the one below). <BR> <BR>And I hear it makes your curtains fade faster ;)
