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==History== This time format was proposed by the Swedish-American engineer [[John W. Nystrom]] in 1863 as part of his ''[[tonal system]]''.<ref>{{cite book |title=Project of a New System of Arithmetic, Weight, Measure and Coins: Proposed to be Called the Tonal System, with Sixteen to the Base |first=John William |last=Nystrom |publisher=Lippincott |date=1862 |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_aNYGAAAAYAAJ|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_aNYGAAAAYAAJ/page/n113 105] }}</ref> In 1997, the American Mark Vincent Rogers of [[Intuitor]] proposed a similar system of hexadecimal time and implemented it in [[JavaScript]] as the Hexclock.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.intuitor.com/hex/hexclock.html|title=Intuitor Hex Headquarters, The Hex Clock|website=www.intuitor.com|access-date=2020-04-02}}</ref>
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