Hexadecimal time
The hexadecimal time format divides the day into sixteen equal hexidecimal hours.
There are 256 hexadecimal minutes in a hexadecimal hour and 16 hexadecimal seconds in a hexadecimal minute. The hexadecimal time format was first proposed by the Swedish-American engineer John W. Nystrom in 1863. In 1997, the American Mark Vincent Rogers of www.intuitor.com retake this invention and called it "Hexclock". The proposal of Mr Rogers uses the hexidecimal digit system of 0-9 and A-F, the units of time were reformatted to fit in such a way that was conducive to the 16-digit system.
The conversion from hexclock units of time is as follows:
Intuitor-hextime is also dentoed in a different fashion; rather than the conventional colon ( : ), the hexclock uses an underscore ( _ ) between hexhours and hexminutes. For example of use, noon in military time is 12:00, being the halfway point of the day. Translated to hextime, this would be 8_00, as half of the 16-hour set-up is eight hours (12/24 = 8/16). An other example: 8_A6 (≥ 12:58).
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