> Is there a reason why they decided to store time as seconds from 1970? Pretty sure it was related to space being an issue. In every place where you needed to

> Is there a reason why they decided to store time as seconds from 1970? Pretty sure it was related to space being an issue. In every place where you needed to save time you likely didn't want to use more space than you had to. This was also a driving factor as to why years were stored with only the last two digits. In 2017 we have no problem store-wise making it a 64-bit integer. But in the 90s and earlier? I think it would have been a hard sell to make a change that would future proof them beyond 2038 especially when so many play the short term money game.