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Internet Beat Time: The Swatch .beat clock for Chrome. 1,000 beats, no time zones, the same time everywhere on Earth. In 1998, Swatch proposed Internet Time - a single global clock with no time zones. The day is divided into 1,000 .beats. @000 is midnight in Biel, Switzerland. @500 is noon. Each beat is 86.4 seconds. The same @beat is the same moment everywhere on Earth, no conversions, no offsets, no daylight saving. It launched at MIT with ICQ and Phantasy Star Online as early adopters. A satellite named Beatnik was planned for deployment from the Mir Space Station to broadcast it globally - amateur radio operators blocked it. The dot-com bubble burst around 2001 and Swatch quietly stopped, no press release. This extension shows the current .beat time with a live donut clock, your local time alongside Biel time, and a plain-English explanation of what beats are for anyone new to the concept. It also has a 1998 mode. Features - Live .beat clock with donut display - Your local time and Biel time side by side - Beats remaining in the day - Swatch date format (d30.05.26 — always day.month.year) - Full history and mechanics in About - 1998 iMac nostalgia mode, because why not ? Privacy No data collected. No network requests. The only permission is storage, used to remember your theme preference between sessions. Version 1.0.1 - Fixed Biel time display to correctly observe Swiss daylight saving time. - Removed the context label (Golden Hour, Dusk etc.) from the clock display. The labels were based on Biel time rather than your local time, making them misleading for most users outside central Europe. - Fixed @ symbol alignment in the main clock - was sitting slightly low relative to the beat number. - Fixed BMT label readability in 1998 mode.