Also reminds me of the "Programmer-Archaeologist" career Vinge described. And that humans' software had long used a low-level clock which was thought to commemo

Also reminds me of the "Programmer-Archaeologist" career Vinge described. And that humans' software had long used a low-level clock which was thought to commemorate the first moon landing. (A fair guess, but the epoch chosen was actually in January 1970....)