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Why does anyone care about a decimal milestone? I thought the excitement would be when you flip a big bit.

• Profpatsch 12y ago
  Unix time is representing seconds, and seconds are a human measurement which use decimal notation.
  • robobro 12y ago
    Seconds are base 60 actually, just like minutes
    • chrisBob 12y ago
      I thought about that too, but then we would just be encouraging people to watch as the year wraps around at midnight on 1 January. That milestone is usually overshadowed by other things.
• derekp7 12y ago
  It's because I got 10 fingers on my hands. So that kind of makes it interesting, I guess.