1. Jonathan Jay Seattle: What is XTime? (geert lovink) 2. Assoc. for the Public University - Forum (Ned Rossiter)

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Message: 1 From: "geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl> To: <fibreculture@lists.myspinach.org> Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 10:03:26 +1000 charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: ::fibreculture:: Jonathan Jay Seattle: What is XTime?

From: "jonathan jay Seattle" <jonathan@speakeasy.org> Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2001 7:39 AM

What is XTime?

XTime is an open-source, global, decimal time system powered by 'chi' (rhymes with pi, symbol "x"), a unit of temporal duration roughly equal to 10^-5 of the mean solar day, or precisely 864 milliseconds. The pace or tempo of XTime is adagio -- about 70 'chi'(x) per minute, so that there are 100.000 'chi'(x) every day. 1.000 'chi' (864 seconds) or one kilo-chi (kx) = 1% of the day, and is exactly 14.4 minutes in duration. There are 100 kx each day.

XTime is synchronised with the Julian Date system, a meta-gregorian calendrical sysytem first developed for astronomers in the late 1583, and displaying a *decimal fraction* of the Julian Day for over 150 years. In XTime, as with JD, each global day begins at noon on the prime merdian... which is importantly also *midnight on the anti-prime* meridian).

Introducing The Xprime Meridian; the International Decimal Line xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

By carefully selecting the 180th Meridian as the Xprime Meridian (running mostly along the International Date Line), XTime does not pretend that one place's local time (local London time as the basis for GMT/UTC, or BMT for Swatch's Internet Time). Instead, XTime is the percentage of the world *allready in tommorow*.

XTime is a new conception of time for the entire planet. Now. Everywhere.(xtm) xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxx

XTime Universal Time Some observations

00.000,XT = 12:00:00,UT the "ZERO MOMENT", for you lunchtime! 25.000,XT = 18:00:00,UT 25% of the world is in the 10th of June 48.000,XT = 23:31:12,UT 48% June 10th... LOCAL MIDNIGHT IN HAMBURG 50.000,XT = 00:00:00,UT 50% of the world is in the 10th of June 75.000,XT = 06:00:00,UT 75% of the world is in the 10th of June 83.333,XT = 08:00:00,UT 83% June 10th... LOCAL MIDNIGHT IN SEATTLE 99.000,XT = 11:45:36,UT 99% June 10th time for lunch again, Bon apetit'!

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Bitte, consider upgrading your excellent worldtime service to *include* XTime, the third millenium of time (xtm)

I look forward to any questions or comments you may have.

writing from the ninth of june, jonathan jay Seattle

============================ 2001.06.10 40:225.XT ============================= don't have the time? try xtime instead! http://www.xtime.org/