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by gpderetta 1305 days ago
> let’s do it correctly this time and start counting from 0001-01-01

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> one subgroup of one profession naming a whole time epoch was kind of pretentious.

I think that the UNIX epoch is bless contentious that the other epoch, as is not tied to a religious event. OS wars not withstanding.

Also the UNIX time was specifically designed for UNIX.