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eramdam
@eramdam

Alright who wanna write a userscript to make all timestamps into .beats on cohost


RatBaby
@RatBaby

We can bring about the return of internet time (formerly known as swatch internet time)


ticky
@ticky

so much so I made a website to embed it in sites that don't otherwise have it


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hey @ticky, there's one thing I've never quite understood about Internet Time. Say I want to schedule a game of Phantasy Star Online (as is customary) next Thursday at 11pm PT. I understand how to convert the time into .beats, but what would the corresponding date be? It's Thursday in Pacific time, but Friday in most other time zones.

yeah this is one of the things that there isn't much good guidance for, I would say the ideal is to refer to the date in UTC+1, so @000 is midnight on the new day, but it does make "days of week" much harder to get your head around, so I think going for day of month instead of day of week is the better option

in the @Watch app I made it give you the option of either, but I find myself using it in local date mode more often myself

I don't think Internet Time is going to replace conventional time any time soon, but I do think that the presumption that it's easier to know your time zone offset than your waking/active hours in beats is not necessarily true, I think you definitely can get used to knowing you get up around @700 and go to bed around @330, or whatever. It's definitely easier from that perspective to know at a glance what it means to you than having to do two offset conversions each time, and hope that the poster actually marked an offset.

you'd only have to do one offset conversions, and if you interact with utc regularly (as i happen to do) you also get a feel for when is when.

i'm kinda assuming that whoever your talking to is choosing to specify in either UTC or Internet Time? if they give it as local time, and don't specify what timezone, it's kinda here nore there to use UTC or IT because you've still gotta message them and go hey, what's that in not-american?

yeah, they're specifying it in things like "Eastern" which, I don't know what offset that equates to, where if they said an Internet Time I would know immediately without even one zone conversion

like I said, I don't think it's going to take over, I just don't think it's as impractical as some people make it out to be, the bigger challenge for both of us is just the naïve local time hegemony :P

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