Binary Clock

This page displays a binary clock. It converts standard time to binary time:

Standard (24 hours) clock


Binary clock


Binary Time

We are very much used to our sexagesimal numeral system to measure time. In this base 60 system a day has 24 hours, each hour has 60 minutes and each minute is divided in 60 seconds. A more logical method of time keeping would be a decimal system (base 10 system) dividing a day in 10 hours, with 100 minutes per hour, and 100 seconds in each minute. But we live in a computer age and since all our information is stored in a binary form (in bits), we should perhaps consider switching to binary clocks.

In a decimal numeric system we use 10 different digits (0 to 9), but a binary numeral system represents numeric values using only two symbols (0 and 1). Here is a table showing how decimal values are represented in a binary way:

Decimal Binary Explanations for
minkukels
0 0 Naught
1 1 One one
2 10 One two and zero ones
3 11 One two and one one
4 100 One four, zero twos and zero ones
5 101 One four, zero twos and one one
6 110 One four, one two and zero ones
7 111 One four, one two and one one
8 1000 One eight
9 1001 One eight and one one
10 1010 One eight and one two
11 1011 …
12 1100 …
13 1101 etcetera
14 1110 and so on
15 1111 and so forth
16 10000  
etc.    

The binary clock on this page is in fact a sexagesimal clock shown in a binary format. Perhaps your next birthday present is a binary watch.

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