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No Time Zones
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No Geographical Borders
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How long is a Swatch .beat? In short, we have divided up the virtual and real
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day into 1000 beats. One Swatch beat is the equivalent of 1 minute 26.4
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seconds. That means that 12 noon in the old time system is the equivalent of
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@500 Swatch .beats.
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We are not just creating a new way of measuring time, we are also creating a
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new meridian in Biel, Switzerland, home of Swatch.
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Biel MeanTime (BMT) is the universal reference for Internet Time. A day in
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Internet Time begins at midnight BMT (@000 Swatch .beats) (Central European
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Wintertime). The meridian is marked for all to see on the facade of the Swatch
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International Headquarters on Jakob-Staempfli Street, Biel, Switzerland. So,
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it is the same time all over the world, be it night or day, the era of time
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zones has disappeared.
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WWW: http://datetime.perl.org/
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