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Unix time is representing seconds, and seconds are a human measurement which use decimal notation.


Seconds are base 60 actually, just like minutes


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.




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