Q) What
is the difference between the i-time and the Internet
Time zone?
A) The i-time can be considered as the Internet Time
zone. If you want to create a classical time, you
need to know its geographical coordinates. However,
in the i-time, the geographical importance is deleted
and i-time is based on new Internet based coordinates,
such as the Internet bandwidth, the processor speed,
the network jitter and some other factors related
to the speed of light.
Q) When is the epoch
of the i-time?
A) The epoch started on January 1, 2000 at midnight
(00:00:00 am) Jerusalem and Bethlehem time.
Q) Is there a relationship
between the epoch and the new millennium?
A) It was a coincidence. The mathematical relationship
and the Internet performance calculations were done
before the new millennium in a week. It was delayed
to start on new year's eve for easier calculations.
Q) Is there any difference
between the i-time and the conventional time at the
epoch?
A) No, both have started equal, but since the i-time
moves faster than the conventional time, the i-time
now is leading the conventional time.
Q) What is the current
relationship between the i-time and the @i-pulse?
A) @i-pulse is the unit of measurement for the i-time.
The @i-pulse is analogous to the second in the conventional
time measurements.
Q) How many @i-pulses
are in an iMinute?
A) 60.
Q) How many iMinutes
are in an iHour?
A) 60.
Q) How many iHours are
in an iDay?
A) 24. No concept of am and pm. All times are 24 ihours
based.
Q) How many iMonths
are in an iYear?
A) 12.
Q) How many iDays are
in an iYear?
A) 365 1/4. The leap year is maintained in the i-time.
Q) What are the names
of the days and months in i-time?
A) Similar to the corresponding conventional time,
days in i-time are iSunday, iMonday, iTuesday, etc.
And months are iJanuary, iFebruary, iMarch, etc.
Q) What is the date
format in i-time?
A) Any conventional date format can be used, such
as, iJanuary 1, i2001 or i1-1-i2001 (US standard)
or 1-iJanuary-i2001 or 1-i1-i2001 (European standard).
Q) Who decides the @i-pulse
over second factor?
A) Currently, Jaffa.Net's equation handles the factor.
We are planning to release this to an i-time body
to decide the factor. The IETF (The Internet Engineering
Task Force) can play a role in this.
Q) What is Jaffa.Net's
Intellectual Property regarding i-time?
A) i-time is a patent pending in the US and Europe.
A patent disclosure has been filed in the US and Europe
and in the process of filing it in Japan.
Q) Can the @i-pulse
over the second go as small to reach zero in the future?
A) Based on the equation, the factor will not reach
zero in a foreseeable future. Note that there are
conflicting factors in the equation: the processor
speed may go very fast, but the number of Internet
users is increasing significantly. The factor is reverse
proportional to the number of Internet users. Nonetheless,
the factor is expected to be decreased and may reach
0.9 or 0.8 in the future. In theory however, if the
@i-pulse reaches zero, it is referred to as the @i-impulse.
Q) What are the factors
considered in the calculation of the i-time?
A) The factors are all Internet related. Internet
bandwidth, Processor speed, Internet jitter, and Internet
total number of users all in relation with the speed
of light.
Q) Are all the factors
involved in the i-time calculation treated equally?
A) No. We have devised an equation where the processor
speed for example, since it moves much faster than
the Internet bandwidth, has less impact than the bandwidth.
Q) What are the applications
that can use the i-time?
A) The applications are actually immense: The wrest
watches can have two time measures, one for local
Gregorian time and one for the global Internet time
· The Internet applications such as net-meeting,
net2phone, chatting, net-casting and Web-casting can
all use the i-time for scheduling The Internet
Browsers · The scheduling and project management
software can use i-time to produce and manage Internet
related products in an efficient time-to-market approach
· All networking and Internet related devices
such as switches, routers, hubs, ATM switches, and
intelligent network devices · Satellites ·
Phone switches (Mobile and land based) since they
are part of a global network · The synchronization
servers on the Internet (time of day servers) can
use i-time for synchronization purposes · The
mobile operators can push the global i-time to the
GSM phones to become as the global roaming time ·
The airplanes time while flying across geographical
borders · The time of space shuttles, Calendars,
and any information device such as palm pilots, pagers,
and many other applications.
Q) Does the i-time
have an impact on the way people think?
A) We hope that people think and act faster and faster
with i-time "Great Minds Sync Alike".
Q) Does the i-time
have any relationship with the relativity theory?
A) Yes indeed. The i-time equation actually does not
conflict with the relativity theory. The relativity
theory is based on the fact that the conventional
time is actually a human illusion and a convention
only and does not exist without space and matter.
In i-time there is no significance for geography.
Q) How did you calculate
the Internet bandwidth?
A) We have devised a complete simulation program using
the Matlab™ package with several assumptions
taking into considerations several network topologies,
average bandwidth, percentage of usage. This calculation
was the most difficult and the most time consuming
factor in the calculation process.
Q) What if no one adopted
the i-time?
A) The i-time needs not to be adopted as is. A larger
community may need to participate in the definition
of the Internet time zone. As long as we live in the
information age, an information technology-based units
of measurements are needed.
Q) Do you think that
there is a need for other units of measurements to
replace the conventional measurement such as distance?
A) Yes there is a need to introduce new information
technology-based units of measurement to replace conventional
ones. Jaffa.Net R&D team is investigating this
issue.
Q) Does the i-time
have an impact on the way people work?
A) Yes. If one works for 8 i-time hours, that means
he/she has worked actually less hours in comparison
to the conventional time span. Hence i-time can be
a good measure to the unit of work, and we believe
that people's productivity will be increased.
Q) Why is i-time considered
to be a better measure for the unit of work?
A) i-time calculations and its formula are based on
throughput factors. In a networked world, throughput
reflects the measurement of the number of units of
successful achievements.
Q) Are there any Internet
events using the i-time for scheduling?
A) Yes. Jaffa.Net is aiming at launching a major Internet
festival on the i-time second anniversary on iJanuary
1, i2002. Hope to see you there.
Q) Is there an i-time
square?
A) The i-time square is virtually everywhere since
there is no concept of geographical place in i-time.
Do your own virtual i-time square by participating
in i-time events.
Q) How can I contact
the Jaffa.Net I-team?
A) Easy and simple: send an email at any i-time from
any i-place to i-time@i-jaffa.net.
Q) Is there a day and
night in i-time?
A) No.
Q) What is the difference
between Jaffa.Net's @i-pulse and Swatch's Beat for
Internet time?
A) Swatch Beat just divided the 24 hours of a day
into a 1000 beat. It maintained the geographical importance
in their definition of the Internet time. The Swatch
Beat is static, does not change and has no relation
with the Internet technology. On the other hand, @i-pulse
is a purely Internet based time measure.
Q) If there is life
on another planet, can we use i-time as on planet
earth?
A) Yes, and perhaps if we conduct communication with
these other species-assuming they are intelligent-
we will be able to synchronize our watches with theirs
using i-time.
