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Or I can use my other watch to set this one. 🤷
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date '+scale=2;((%H*60+%M)*60+%S.%N)/8640' | bc
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I finally got around to setting this after the last switch to DST.
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vous pensez quoi de ma fonction ?
(pas encore compilée, pas encore testée)C'est ma première fonction rédigée depuis mon burn-out en Septembre 2020, soyez indulgent-es svp.
#Programming #Programmation #C #OSO #SensorWatch #DecimalTime #TempsDecimal #CalendrierRepublicain #CalendrierRevolutionnaire #Romme
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It's Sunday. I don't need precision. One hand is enough.
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"Unicycling at 14:24"
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I needed a little break from a ternary encoded display, so I went back to one of my old favourites. French Decimal Time 🇫🇷.
As a side note, since it is no longer DST in Europe and I'm the same timezone as the Swatch headquarters 🇨🇭, it's also actually the current valid time in .Beats (a.k.a. Swatch® Internet Time)! 🥳
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03:56!? I'm late for work!
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For some reason I cannot get rid of the idea of having a metric time (a.k.a decimal time) clock as a watch or as a clock.
Out of everything in the SI (International System of Units), time is the only one that is really integral in our life and yet is not following the decimal system. Everything else (length, mass, electric current, temperature, luminosity,...) follow the decimal system, but time for some reason is still this weird format.
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How about more time trivia then. So what is the deal with 12 hour clocks if we have 24 hours in a day? Furthermore, why 24 hours? And if they are 24 hours in a day, why are there 60 minutes and 60 seconds? This seems illogical, right? Maybe we should decimalize it, like we did with the metric system!
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Back to sensible times.
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Sent the first picture to one of my unicycle friends with the comment, "5:80 already, the day is flying by" and he replied with "True" and the second picture.
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Today from the #TimeLibrary my article about a quirky #DecimalTime system from the mid-20th century United States.
But first, how did we wind up with 24 hours in a day anyway? Why are there 60 minutes in an hour? Wouldn't 100 make more sense? Maybe, find out more...
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Dead on 6.00 decimal (14:24)
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Take two of trying to get to bed before 9:60
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It's almost 9:60 here. Time for bed methinks!
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After two weeks with lots of trains (and hence some precision for times being needed) it is nice to go back to the single handed #DecimalWatch
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I'm told the time cannot be 7.86 but if that were true, how come both my watches state this.
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It's 4.60 already!? This day is flying by.
#CasioCult #SensorWatch #DecimalTime #DecimalWatch #WristCheck
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Since my LED watch might have upset people (being slightly misaligned) I'll switch back to this.
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@moira @jarek No, the seconds are shorter. 1 decimal second is 0.864 SI seconds. 😉
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time#Conversions
P.S. Yes today I am acting as "reply guy" but since I regularly wear a decimal watch, display decimal time on my Android phone and also have devices that show Swatch .beats, I'll admit I failed to contain myself. 🤪
Anyway here is one of my watches with a picture taken at exactly midnight.
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And since .beats are a decimal system, if you remove the forced timezone that .beats use, you can just read those last four digits as as percentage of the day to two digits and that actually makes them relatively understandable to a low level of resolution for most people. I added this to my README.
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In front a terminal prompt on Linux, macOS or other *nix? Want to know the current time in Swatch .beats?
$ echo -n @; TZ=UTC-1 date "+((%H*60+%M)*60+%S)/86.4" | bc
I already have my own short shell script for this but just stumbled over this post where the core logic was compacted down to one-liner, which is pretty sweet.
https://mstdn.social/@lpbkdotnet/110196869649648886
Their full version is fancier still using figlet and watch to monitor (check it out).
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Yep looks right to me
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Finally I got my watch set correctly!
#WristCheck #DecimalWatch #DecimalTime #CasioCult #Sensorwatch #beats