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["Shea Tisdale" <shea AT sheatisdale.com>]

Or I could sell you a watch, I mean Swatch, that has it as a constant 
display...


On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 12:58:17 -0500 (EST), burnett AT pobox.com wrote:

>On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Shea Tisdale wrote:
>
>> Swatch put out watches using swatch beats which broke days up into 1000 
>> even increments.  The hallmark of their now defunct system was no 
>> timezones and saying time in the format of @489.  For the digital age it 
>> actually made alot of sense 
>> since a conference call @715 would be at 715swatchbeats anywhere on earth. 
>>  So no timezones translations, etc.
>> 
>> But alas, our old movement of the planets based time system is just to 
>> popular...
>
>If you're using a Mac, add it to your desktop:
>
>OS X menu bar
>http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=4889
>OS X Dock
>http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=10839
>OS9 (controlstrip module):
>http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=4331
>
>Steve
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>
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