[Air-l] Re: Fibreculture digest, Vol 1 #75 - 2 msgs

[jeremy hunsinger]

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>   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 at xs4all.nl>
> To: <fibreculture at lists.myspinach.org>
> Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 10:03:26 +1000
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> Subject: ::fibreculture:: Jonathan Jay Seattle: What is XTime?
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> From: "jonathan jay Seattle" <jonathan at speakeasy.org>
> Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2001 7:39 AM
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> 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
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> 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)
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> XTime     Universal Time Some observations
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> 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
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> ============================ 2001.06.10 40:225.XT
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>                     don't have the time? try xtime instead!
>                              http://www.xtime.org/