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Fri 2007-05-04

Waste of time

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— daniel @ 17:25

Complete waste of time: Swatch Internet Time. What a stupid concept that was. Centred on Biel, Switzerland (Swatch’s headquarters). Accuracy to only 1 minute 26.4 seconds. I remember for a while CNN.com displayed Internet timestamps. Totally meaningless to almost everybody. Just stick to UTC fellas, at least people have a chance of understanding that.

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