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REVOLUTIONARY FERVOR CHECK, sans-culotte! For your sake, it should be FRACTIONAL (media.piefed.social)
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[–] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Swatch Time was kind of neat, I wish it had taken off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 4 points 4 months ago

Except that they called it “Internet Time” without so much as submitting a RFC to IETF.