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[–] ELLIOTTCABLE@beehaw.org 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

When I was a kid, I was such a nerd, that I invented my own decimal timekeeping system.

Even wrote a little macOS menubar clock for it — I was dead-serious.

Edit: omg the website still works, even though I never put any real content there …

http://yreality.net/UJD/

Edit 2: Found this old explanation I apparently put together in July 2010, according to my image archive:

[–] paulchartres@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay but now you have to tell us how it works!

[–] kambusha@feddit.ch 10 points 1 year ago

All I can gather, is that the number furthest to the right seems to be 100ms, so the second digit from the right is counting seconds. When those 3 digits reach 000, they've counted 100 seconds.

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