Internet Time —    Multiples & Fractions
 

The basic unit of Internet Time is the beat, 1/1000 of a day.

This is what you'd get if you divided a day into 10 decimal-hours and then divided each decimal hour into 100 decimal-minutes.

But, Swatch didn't call them decimal-hours and decimal-minutes. They called them beats. So what do you call 0.1 (1/10) beat? And what do you call 100 beats?

This page shows what happens if you apply standard metric prefixes.

For information on how I got this information, see the links at the bottom of the page.

Also on the Net

Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM): The international organization that ensures world-wide uniformity of measurements and their traceability to the International System of Units (SI).  (www.bipm.fr/enus/)

SI Base Units: Gives the definitions of the basic units of measurement, including the second.  (www.bipm.fr/enus/3_SI/base_units.html)

SI Prefixes: Shows the prefixes and their symbols for standard metric units.  (www.bipm.fr/enus/3_SI/si-prefixes.html)

Last updated:
16:48, Fri, 27.Jun.2008