# Swatch Internet Time

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time>

- Host: [en.wikipedia.org](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/en.wikipedia.org/)
- Saved: February 17, 2022 (2022-02-17T23:47:58Z)
- Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/d115de539ec9/
- JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/d115de539ec9.json

## What Jamie wrote

Something reminded me of this recently and it keeps popping back into my head. Divide the day into 1,000 beats, and that is the time. In beats. I even created a [Time in Beats Shortcut](https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/251ff12f41a14824aac2de16c6051ad5) for fun. 😊

## Facts

- Kind: [Article](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/article/)
- From Wikipedia: Swatch Internet Time, Alternative time system by watch maker Swatch

## Appears in

- [WT212: Weekly Thing #212 / Words, Mermaid, Beats](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/212/), Notable

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## Elsewhere

- Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time