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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time Basically the same thing, except the day is divided up into 1000 parts instead of 100.

So instead of (roughly) 24 time zones there would be 100? Maybe you divide by four and have 25 to match current boundaries.

I prefer to tack the fractional portion onto the date.

2011-09-09.9275

It's called "ISO 8601". Personally, I use the period to demarcate all differences when writing somewhere for myself: 2011.09.10.02.13.21

Real men use unix timestamps.

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