beatTAI

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 -:[ a new Internet time for turbonerds & superweirdos ]:-

This repository is a fork of B4UDW3RK5/beatTAI ₄₀₄ by cat K.

Original abstract

   In 1998 Swatch introduced Swatch Internet Time (or .beat time), displayed as
@xxx.xx (for example @198.26). It's a cute and fun way to display the time and
I find it aesthetically very pleasing to look at.

   However, Swatch being based in Switzerland they chose to align .beats to
Swiss time (UTC+1) which outside of countries in that timezone means very
little and is impractical.

   I half-jokingly posted on the Fediverse that I wanted a new .beat time
aligned to UTC instead of UTC+1, and was met with some small discussion about
aligning it to International Atomic Time (TAI) instead and, well, here we are:
beatTAI or .tai for short.

Format

In line with Swatch .beat time, .tai is a day divided into 1000 and represented as ":xxx.xx".

Math

beatTAI = (TAIhours × 3600 + TAIminutes × 60 + TAIseconds) / 86.4

Etc

• gbt _Go outputs current time in beatTAI using brandondube/tai
• gbtgui _Go is a graphical beatTAI clock modified from peterhellberg/beats
• i9w _C outputs current time in beatTAI using libtai