Hexadecimal time
| UTC-00:00 Hex Triplet (Update) | |
|---|---|
| Base 60 | 06:35:00 |
| Base 16 |
46_38_E3 |
Hexadecimal time is the representation of the time of day as a hexadecimal number in the interval [0, 1].
The day is divided into 1016 (1610) hexadecimal hours, each hour into 10016 (25610) hexadecimal minutes, and each minute into 1016 (1610) hexadecimal seconds.
History
[edit | edit source]This time format was proposed by the Swedish-American engineer John W. Nystrom in 1863 as part of his tonal system.[1]
In 1997, the American Mark Vincent Rogers of Intuitor proposed a similar system of hexadecimal time and implemented it in JavaScript as the Hexclock.[2]
Implementation
[edit | edit source]A day is unity, or 1, and any fraction thereof can be shown with digits to the right of the hexadecimal separator. So the day begins at midnight with .0000 and one hexadecimal second after midnight is .0001. Noon is .8000 (one half), one hexadecimal second before was .7FFF and one hexadecimal second before next midnight will be .FFFF.
Hextime may also be formatted with an underscore separating hexadecimal hours, minutes and seconds; in full mathematical format this follows hex triplet web color scheme.
| Hex | Hex (Boardman) | ISO 8601 | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| .0100 | 0_10_0 | 00:05:37.5 | |
| .0200 | 0_20_0 | 00:11:15 | |
| .0400 | 0_40_0 | 00:22:30 | |
| .0800 | 0_80_0 | 00:45:00 | |
| .1000 | 1_00_0 | 01:30:00 | 1.5:24 = 1:16 = 0.1 |
| .8000 | 8_00_0 | 12:00:00 | 12:24 = 8:16 = 0.8 |
| .F000 | F_00_0 | 22:30:00 | 22.5:24 = 15:16 = 0.F |
| .F800 | F_80_0 | 23:15:00 |
Conversions
[edit | edit source]| Hex | hexsec base 16 |
hexsec base 10 |
Traditional | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 day | = | 10000 | = | 65536 | = | 24 h |
| 1 hexadecimal hour | = | 1000 | = | 4096 | = | 1 h 30 min |
| 1 hexadecimal tertiary | = | 100 | = | 256 | = | 5 min 37.5 s |
| 1 hexadecimal minute | = | 10 | = | 16 | = | 21.09375 s |
| 1 hexadecimal second | = | 1 | = | 1 | = | 1.318359375 s |
| 1 second | = | 0.C22E4 | = | 0.75851 | = | 1 s |
See also
[edit | edit source]References
[edit | edit source]Further reading
[edit | edit source]- Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
External links
[edit | edit source]- Hexadecimal Time Applet - digital and analog
- True Binary Time - local time as a binary number
- Analog hexadecimal clock - Florence Mean Time
- Minimal Hexadecimal Time Clock - real-time hexadecimal time display
