No, you're wrong, it will still work. The trick is in 

(time + 3600) % 86400

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It doesn't matter what year it starts, as long as the number returned by this little piece of code, is the number of seconds since midnight from the BMT (Biel Mean Time), which is similar to GMT+1. The date is not important. Rememeber, the time function gives the number of seconds since midnight, different date for different systems, but still at GMT/UTC. Doing the % 86400 simply calculates the number of seconds since midnight, regardless of the date.

To answer your question, the system probably won't get a lot of appeal. I suggest you read the article on Swatch's website to get more info.

Funny enough, I returned from Switserland yesterday evening, and I was doing a lot of thinking on the Internet Time idea. It is good if you want to arrange meetings and stuff with people across different time zones, but it does not consider people travelling. Example, you get used to getting up at a specific time, now you travel to the other side of the world, where internet time is identical to your time, you'll permanently have jetlag!

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