Summary:Technological Advancements Are What Catapulted Humans Over And Over Into The Next Century. Remarkable Sciences Like The Combustion, Electricity, Integrated Circuits And Recently The Internet Created The Technology Which We Enjoy Today. Thats Why Multibillion Corporations Allocate Several Pounds Of Resources Into Research And Development, Sponsoring Wild Forays Into Unknown Just To Catch A Formula That Would Sell. However, Some Innovations Obviously Just Wouldnt Sell.The Internet Time Clock Is A Technological Foray Into Time Standardization Made By Swatch And A Perfect Example Of A Missed Innovation. What It Does Is Dividing A Full Day Into 1000 Beats, Characterized (.beat), With Each Beat Having The Space Of Exactly 1 Min And 26.4 Seconds. Because It Is Intended For Universal Time, There Are Markedly No Time Zones And It Lacks Daylight Saving Time. Swatchs Internet Time Clock Is Displayed With A Distinctive Commercial At Before The Actual Time. Graphically 248 Would Mean 248 .beats Or 4:57:07.2 UTC.Swatch Could Have A Feasible System Running If Only Serious Considerations Have Been Made Over The Material. One Major Positive Is The Simplicity In Classifying The Passage Of Time, And It Is Obvious That This Is One Of The Considerations Made By Swatch. The Internet Time Clock Makes A Day Equal To 1000 Beats. That Would Make Far Easier Time Management Than The Conventional 24 Hour Format. For Instance 4500 .beats Can Be Determined Far Easier As 4 Days And 12 Hours Than Saying 108 Hours.Since Swatch Wasnt Able To Provide A Fuller System, It Failed Miserably In Several Cases. Such As The Inability To Manage Time Smaller Than A .beat. There Is Basically No Time In Between 1 Min And 26.4 Second Officially, Though By Adding Several Extensions, Revisions Have Been Made By Third Parties To Accommodate The Space In Between .beats.Perhaps The Greatest Failing Of Swatchs Internet Time Clock Is The Presence Of The Already Standardized UTC, Which Makes The Internet Time Clock Very Unnecessary. In Fact, Most Criticisms Of The Swatchs Internet Time Clock Are Targeted To Its Flagrant Commercial Attempt. Swatch Watches That Feature An Internet Time Clock Is Hardly Useful, The Time Being Only Applicable To A Few Instances. Professional Establishments Have Already Adopted The UTC As A Standard Time If Not The Local Time And Attempting To Switch To Swatchs New System Would Make An Unfeasible Action.Another Reason For The Systems Downfall Is Being Too Formulaic, Too Rigid. UTC Was Adapted For Daylight Saving Time, An Important Feature For European Countries On Winter Seasons. And Though Swatchs Internet Time Clock Patterns From The UTC, No Accommodations Are Made For Leap Year Events And Several Other Flukes In The Earths Rotation.
