Internet Time

Internet Time was an alternative time keeping system introduced in 1998, with the (somewhat debatable but admirable) purpose of making it easy for people to synchronise online activities.

It's a decimal time system where a day is split into 1000 'beats', starting at @000 and ending at @999 (Internet Time is presented with an '@' at the beginning). The timezone is permanently at UTC+1, so the time is the same around the world.

It was used in a few places, most notably as Phantasy Star Online, but it didn't take off and became a footnote in history of one of those weird Y2K internet things.

This module that lets you use Internet Time in Elm, should that be a thing you want to do.

I made this package because I was starting out in Elm and it seemed like a fun way to get started with package design.

Find out the Internet Time from a Posix Time:

    oneTime = Time.millisToPosix 1525244393059
    anotherTime = Time.millisToPosix 1525221281000

    InternetTime.fromPosix oneTime -- 333
    InternetTime.fromPosix anotherTime -- 65

    InternetTime.displayFromPosix oneTime -- "333"
    InternetTime.displayFromPosix anotherTime -- "065"

Convert milliseconds into beats:

    millisToBeats 1380000 -- 23 minutes = 15.972222 beats

Use the cadence of internet time in your application:

    subscriptions : Model -> Sub Msg
    subscriptions model =
        Time.every centibeat Tick