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This page (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/sandf...) has a picture of a mechanical pocket watch from the 1880s belonging to Sandford Fleming with the letters shown against each hour.

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Cool, Thanks for sharing. I didn't know about Fleming's watch. The problem he was trying to solve back then is represented again today by distributed and remote work. Companies and teams have employees, customers, and parterres all over the world, and the 3-letter time zone system started to be more confusing, especially with daylight saving. UTC is a universal time, but unfortunately it's rare to see it used on a daily basis. The introduction of hTime is to simply bring UTC back as the central time globally and make it easier to use by combining it with local times. So we've got local and global times in one clock.

No J or V, Interesting those were sacrificed.

Probably for the same reasons mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28929226

They're easily confused with I and U, respectively.

Good feedback, probably I should be doing the same on hTime as well. I'll test more and see what's best for UX.

Maybe he just didn’t like the look of them, and wanted the day to end at Z.

You never know when a standard is based on a single person’s subjective choice. I think it’s fascinating personally.

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