Somebody explain Swatch Internet Time to me

I have decided to study Swatch Internet Time until I'm so good at it that I can read a clock and instantly be able to tell what the time is in beats. I looked it up on Wikipedia and it made little sense, and then I check the official website and it sorta maybe kinda clarified things. Somebody explain the concept to me! 
 
I know that 1 beat = 1 minute and about 24.6 seconds or something like that.

" There's a different time than UTC/GMT?   Crazy world we live in... "

" @Hero_Swe said:

" There's a different time than UTC/GMT?   Crazy world we live in... "

Swatch Internet Time divides the day into 1000 beats, thus eliminating time zones. "

" @natetodamax said:

" @Hero_Swe said:

" There's a different time than UTC/GMT?   Crazy world we live in... "

Swatch Internet Time divides the day into 1000 beats, thus eliminating time zones. "

Then when does the day change? "

I too want to live in a world of swatch internet time!

I share Jeff's crazy passion for Swatch Internet Time - now only if more than 10 people knew about it...

I think it would be difficult to use when traveling, as you would have to learn at what beat the day changes wherever you are to be able to know how far you are along in the day. 

What's to explain?  It's a system of time that eliminates time zones.  As for converting time into Swatch Internet Time, just set up a simple conversion with fractions.
 
Time in minutes / 1440 minutes = X beats / 1000 beats
 
So, for 7:33 pm...
1173/1440 = X/1000
1440X = 1173000
X = 814.58 beats

Wouldn't the effect be identical if the whole world just ran at GMT? Swatch doesn't solve any problems, it just introduces a different measure of time from hours and seconds, introducing whole new problems on its own. There's a reason why time zones are used in the first place....

Without time zones, harvests and other essentials to actually staying alive...would be far too difficult to handle. 
 
If those things didn't exist, then sure, I'd be all about some Swatch Internet Time.

" What's to explain?  It's a system of time that eliminates time zones.  As for converting time into Swatch Internet Time, just set up a simple conversion with fractions.  Time in minutes / 1440 minutes = X beats / 1000 beats  So, for 7:33 pm... 1173/1440 = X/1000 1440X = 1173000 X = 814.58 beats "

" What's to explain?  It's a system of time that eliminates time zones.  As for converting time into Swatch Internet Time, just set up a simple conversion with fractions.  Time in minutes / 1440 minutes = X beats / 1000 beats  So, for 7:33 pm... 1173/1440 = X/1000 1440X = 1173000 X = 814.58 beats "

It's star date, but slightly less awesome.

" @Pox22 said:

" What's to explain?  It's a system of time that eliminates time zones.  As for converting time into Swatch Internet Time, just set up a simple conversion with fractions.  Time in minutes / 1440 minutes = X beats / 1000 beats  So, for 7:33 pm... 1173/1440 = X/1000 1440X = 1173000 X = 814.58 beats "

Sorry to post so much, but that's only if you're in the same time zone as Biel, Switzerland, and they're not in Daylight Savings Time.  I don't see the functional difference between Swatch Internet Time and making Biel the new Greenwich while abolishing time zones. The minutes:beats conversion seems entirely unnecessary. "

Having just heard about this and instantly formed my opinion on it, I have come to the conclusion that this will never and shouldn't ever become any kind of real-life time measuring system. We have time zones for a reason. However internet is in the title, and I can see it's uses. No more of that "This tournament takes place at 5!" 
 
Wait, 5 what? pst? oh god what's that in est? Oh man I calculated backwards instead of forwards and missed the tournament. 
 
Just give this time. Seems simple to me. 
 
However, then I saw they were calling their minutes or whatever .beats  
 
with the period at the front. 
 
And the pretentiousness killed my enthusiasm.