.beat time/internet time

THE PROBLEM
so, the current time system that we are using is very convoluted. 24 hours in a day, 60 minutes in an hour, 60 seconds in a minute, 1000 milliseconds in a second. it does NOT fit in nicely at all together like the metric system, which has become so prevalent in modern science that the imperial system (the one used in america) is literally just as convoluted.

now, to give it some credit, 24 and 12 are great for dividing the day, because 12 has lots of factors, even more than 10. however, the number system that we use in basically every single world language is base 10. don't even get me started on how we transition from the arbitrary length of a second (1/84,000 of a day??) or ridiculously complicated TIME ZONES. the current standards for measuring time is simply not enough. why not use our application of the metric system of lengths and weight and volume, and expand it towards time?
that's where .beats come in!!

.BEAT TIME/INTERNET TIME
.beat time, or "internet time" was developed by the watch company "swatch" in 1998 for their new line of .beat watches. it splits the day into 1000 beats: a beat is about a minute and a half each. there are NO time zones because, as the other name suggests, it was developed for use on the internet. 0000, or "midnight," is actually midnight for a town in Switzerland which was chosen to be the Internet Time meridian. this makes it so there is no ambiguity in what time something is scheduled; the time that you are seeing above you is the time for literally everyone in the world.

there is an @ symbol in front of the time to distinguish it from a random number. so, at the time of writing this, for me it is @46. there is also no daylight savings time either, which saves tons of effort of changing clocks. i really love this idea bc it is just so useful and so cool looking!

if you want to see it in action look in the "abt me" section of my profile!