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Internet Time. Outside these areas, it is infrequently used. While Swatch still offers the concept on its website, it no longer markets Beat watches. In July 2016, Swatch released Touch Zero Two, its second wirelessly connected watch, with Swatch Internet
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communicate about time, mostly by eliminating time zones altogether. It also does away with the division of the day into 12 or 24 parts (hours), then 60 parts (minutes), then 60 parts (seconds), then 1000 parts (milliseconds). Furthermore, there is no confusion between the
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in 2000 to try to facilitate cross-continent gaming (as the game allowed
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frequency for broadcasting a commercial message (an act banned by international treaties). The satellite was intended to be deployed by hand from the
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