[Noisebridge-discuss] Fwd: [SAGE] Server time & local time.

[Jason Dusek]

  We are discussing server timezones on the System Administrators'
  Guild mailing list and Swatch internet time came up. The following
  synopsis is pretty funny.

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Jason Dusek




---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mike Knell <mpk at uffish.net>
Date: 2010/3/31
Subject: Re: [SAGE] Server time & local time.
To: rmilner at nmt.edu
Cc: sage-members at usenix.org


On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:08 AM, Ruth Milner <rmilner at nmt.edu> wrote:

> Anyone remember "Swatch time"? They had this silly idea that everyone
> could just use the same time - keeping track on their Swatches, of
> course, because it didn't use the customary time-measurement units -
> so no-one would have to worry about time zones.
[..]
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time

This paragraph:
"Swatch Internet Time was announced on October 23, 1998, in a ceremony
at the Junior Summit '98, attended by Nicolas G. Hayek, President and
CEO of the Swatch Group, G.N. Hayek, President of Swatch Ltd., and
Nicholas Negroponte, founder and then-director of the MIT Media Lab.
During the Summit, Swatch Internet Time became the official time
system for Nation1, an online country created and run by children."

... is fantastic. It's the best summary of the dot-com boom you'll
find anywhere. Company doing inexplicable, vaguely Internet-related
but ultimately doomed thing? Check. Negroponte? Check. Inventing your
own countries? Check..

m.

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