Released on Thursday, 13 February 2003
Created by Matthijs
Hollemans
WebWatch is an unofficial port of Swatch's Internet Time utility for BeOS R5 or higher that runs inside the Deskbar.
Someone at Swatch (you know, the company that makes the watches) came up with an idea for a universal time format that eliminates time zones and geographical borders. The idea is very simple: time is no longer measured in hours, minutes, and seconds, but in "beats." A single day consists of 1000 beats, so each beat corresponds to 1 minute and 26.4 seconds.
This "Internet Time" is the same all over the world, because it is measured relatively to something called the Biel Mean Time (BMT), a new meridian that lies in Switzerland. A day in Internet Time begins at midnight BMT, or @000 Swatch Beats, 12 noon is equivalent to @500 beats, and so on. So if it's @812 at my place, it's also 812 beats at yours and everyone else's.
Please check out the Swatch website for more information.
Simply double-click the WebWatch icon to install WebWatch into the Deskbar.
To get rid of it, right-click WebWatch
in the Deskbar and select
the Quit
option from the pop-up menu.
This version of WebWatch is open source and may be distributed under the terms of the MIT license. Note that the author is in no way affiliated with Swatch, and fully respects their copyrights and trademarks.
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Version 1.5 (Thursday, 13 February 2003)
Version 1.4 (Saturday, 9 December 2000)
Version 1.3 (Sunday, 26 November 2000)
Version 1.2 (Tuesday, 26 September 2000)
Version 1.1 (Tuesday, 28 March 2000)
Version 1.0 (Saturday, 14 August 1999)