Swatch Internet Time

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[edit] Set your Timezone

Please Log-In, go to Preferences, select Date and Time and fill in the time offset correctly. Please remember to change this if you are living in a daylight saving zone.

[edit] Current Time

The Swatch Internet Time at last Page refresh was @258 BMT. See also the Swatch Internet Time Converter And Display for conversion.

[edit] Javascript

Get the .beats time in Javascript: ppds.date.js

.beats Clock jQuery plugin: jquery.beats.js -- seems that it's not refreshing fast enough, there may need some improvements.

[edit] Swatch Time in your OS

[edit] Gnome

On Gnome you can try the Gnome Beats Applet. -the link was broken the last time I checked.

Or GNOME Internet Time applet - Github

And you can still use Gnomes native Clock-Applet.

[edit] KDE

please give a hint here.

[edit] Mac OS X

There is a Dashboard Widget available at macupdate. There's also a little display that will sit in your menu and give a constant readout here.

[edit] Windows

If you have Windows Vista or Windows 7 you can install the swatch internet time sidebar gadget. - broken link

On Windows XP/Vista/7 (and MacOS X >10.3), you could try Yahoo! Widgets. Therearemultiplewidgetsavailable.

On any Windows systray: TheBeat

Please note that Windows sets the BIOS time to your local time rather than UTC, which might result in a false time when using other systems in Dual Boot mode.

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