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[-] ELLIOTTCABLE@beehaw.org 58 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When I was a kid, I was such a nerd, that I invented my own decimal timekeeping system.

Even wrote a little macOS menubar clock for it — I was dead-serious.

Edit: omg the website still works, even though I never put any real content there …

http://yreality.net/UJD/

Edit 2: Found this old explanation I apparently put together in July 2010, according to my image archive:

[-] SpooneyOdin@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago

That's pretty cool! The French actually had a decimal time system after the revolution, but they eventually abandoned it.

[-] paulchartres@beehaw.org 18 points 1 year ago

Okay but now you have to tell us how it works!

[-] kambusha@feddit.ch 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

All I can gather, is that the number furthest to the right seems to be 100ms, so the second digit from the right is counting seconds. When those 3 digits reach 000, they've counted 100 seconds.

I see 19567288000 currently. If I remove the last zero, that number should be in seconds. So 1956728800 seconds = ~62 years. The year 2023 - 62yrs = 1961.

Maybe it's counting the number of seconds since a date in 1961? Unix time uses 1970-01-01 but not sure what significance 1961 has.

[-] los_chill@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Holy moly I love stuff like this. Thank you! Awesome!

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