History
The time may have been used during the Tang Dynasty (7th-10th centuries) in China.
This time format was proposed by the Swedish-American engineer John W. Nystrom in 1863 as part of his tonal system.
In 1997, the American Mark Vincent Rogers of Intuitor proposed a similar system of hexadecimal time and implemented it in JavaScript as the Hexclock.
Read more about this topic: Hexadecimal Time
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