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If you got to www.swatch.com, you'll see their newest marketing scam, they have invented a new system for orgganizing time, but it's kinda confusing. Each Day is divided into 1000 beats, each beat is about 1.44 min or 1min 26.4 seconds, and the day starts at Swatch headquarters at midnight in biel switzerland, with @000, so the day starts at different times all over the world. I will now explain my simple convertion system to you. Chewable Pieces Point: @500 is 12 hours Point: @250 is 6 hours Point: theire are approximately @42 beats per hour (closer to 41.667) Point: @21 is about 1/2 hour Point: @7 is about 10 minutes Point: @1 is 1.44 minutes Point: 1 minutes is aprox 0.69 seconds (closer to 0.69444) Steps to Finding Time:1) Findout when @000 is(in Canada/Winter/EST it's 18:00)If you can't just figure it out, goto the converter at www.swatch.com 2) Think of the day in quadrants. (example of CW-EST) a-@000=18:00 b-@250=00:00 c-@500=06:00 d-@750=12:00 3)Figure out how far past the closest quadrant you. (example of CW-EST) 15:45 3 hours and 45 minutes past 12:00 @784 @34 beats past @750 4) break the Numbers down into the listed Chewable pieces. (example of CW-EST) 3h 45m : 3 hours and (30)+(10)+5(1) minutes @34 : (21)+(7)+6(1) 5)Convert useing Chewable Pieces List and add the quadrant(Do the decimals seperately) (example of CW-EST) 15:45 = (@750)+3(42)+(@21)+(@7)+5(@0.69) = @[email protected] = @907.45 @784 = (12:00)+(00:30)+(00:10)+6(00:01.44) = 12:40+00:08.64 = 12:48.64 Ending Notes: You can usually round beats and minutes up and down to non decimal chewable pieces. (example of CW-EST) 14:51 aprox= @750+2(@42)+(@21)+2(@7) aprox=@869 @156 aprox= 18:00+3(01:00)+(00:30)+(00:10) aprox= 21:40 This method may seem complicated, but with a bit of practice, you can usually manage to get within a half hour in your head, and with using it everyday, you can work up to being pecise to the minute. Related Links: www.swatch.comSwatch Home Page members.xoom.com/netbeatHome of the NetBe@t, a better win 95 Net Time Clock, features system tray clock, title bar clock, always on top/or not clock, auto start... etc...AND a time converter!... Unfortunaltly The site and the program are in German, but that's ok, because theire is enough common words in English and German to get by. |