Editing Swatch Internet Time (section)

===Beats===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders floatright"
|+{{Proper name|.beats}} per unit of time
!scope="col"| Unit
!scope="col"| Beats conversion
|-
!scope="row"| 1 day
| 1,000 {{Proper name|.beats}}
|-
!scope="row"| 1 hour
| 41.6 {{Proper name|.beats}}
|-
!scope="row"| 1 min 26.4 s
| 1 {{Proper name|.beat}}
|-
!scope="row"| 1 min
| 0.694 {{Proper name|.beats}}
|-
!scope="row"| 1 s
| 0.011574 {{Proper name|.beats}}
|}

Instead of hours and minutes, the [[solar day|mean solar day]] is divided into 1,000 parts called ''{{Proper name|.beats}}''. Each {{Proper name|.beat}} lasts 1&nbsp;minute and 26.4&nbsp;seconds. One {{Proper name|.beat}} is equal to one decimal minute in [[Decimal time#France|French decimal time]].

Although Swatch does not specify units smaller than one {{Proper name|.beat}}, [[Third-party developer|third party]] implementations have extended the standard by adding "centibeats" or "sub-beats", for extended precision: @248.00. Each "centibeat" is a hundredth of a {{Proper name|.beat}} and is therefore equal to one [[Decimal time#France|French decimal second]] (0.864&nbsp;seconds).<ref>{{cite web
| url = http://wiki.budts.be/internettime
| title = Nucleus Plugin: NP_InternetTime
| work = TeRanEX Wiki
| date = 2005-11-23
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070807061223/http://wiki.budts.be/internettime
| archive-date = 2007-08-07
| url-status = dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
| url = http://www.artefakt.com/projects/ibeat/
| title = iBeat
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081224143907/http://www.artefakt.com/projects/ibeat/
| archive-date = 2008-12-24
| url-status = dead}}</ref>