F L O O W

F L O O W is a functional time-keeping framework

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Here you can find an online F L O O W watch, based on your local time.

Here you can find an online F L O O W stopwatch.

• can be packed in 3 bytes (24bits):
  • (15bits) year [0..32767]
  • (4bits) month
  • (5bits) day

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A day's 24 hours are divided in three PHASES, called "S", "M" and "R"

That's for Sleep Middle Relax

• 0000 - 0800 >> S
• 0800 - 1600 >> M
• 1600 - 2400 >> R

Each third is an interval from 0 to 1, displayed with two decimal digits

Each 0.50 of a PHASE marks an important moment of the day, 0.00 are delimiters

S:0.50 is 0400 M:0.50 is 1200 R:0.50 is 2000

S:0.00 is 0000 M:0.00 is 8000 R:0.00 is 1600

Each PHASE equals to 8 hours

• 1 hour is 0.12
• 0.10 is 48min is a BLOK (10 in a PHASE)
• 0.05 is 24min is a BOX (20 in a PHASE) = 5 FRAGS
  • There are 20 BOX in each PHASE
• 0.01 is 4min48sec is a FRAG (100 in a PHASE)
• 0.001 is 28.8sec is a SLIVER (1000 in a PHASE)

• Each PHASE has 10x BLOKS, or 100x FRAGS.
• A day has 30x BLOKS. or 300x FRAGS.
• 10x BLOKS are for sleeping, 20x BLOKS are available.
• 100x FRAGS are for sleeping. 200x FRAGS are available.

• RECAP:

	PHASE	BLOK	BOX	FRAG	SLIVER
float notation	1.0	0.10	0.05	0.01	0.001
per day	3x	30x	60x	300x	3000x
per phase	-	10x	20x	100x	1000x
equals to	10 BLOK	2 BOX	5 FRAG	10 SLIVER	-

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Date:

• date is in YYYYmDD format.
• YYYY is year. Plain 4-digits number.
• M is month, a b c d e f g h i j k w, to keep it visually compact.
  • All letters are written in small caps, w is used for December, because l can be confused with a 1, w also turned out to be the best choice for IRL handwriting.
  • The small letter provides a nice visual delimiter between year and day
• DD is day, a "0" is prepended for day numbers < 10.

Examples:

May 18, 2019 is 2019e18
December 25, 2020 is 2020w25
October 3, 2123 is 2123j03

Quick month reference:

• a . January
• b . February
• c . March
• d . April
• e . May
• f . June
• g . July
• h . August
• i . September
• j . October
• k . November
• w . December

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