[chrisBob]

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

[derekp7]

It's because I got 10 fingers on my hands. So that kind of makes it interesting, I guess.

[Profpatsch]

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

[robobro]

Seconds are base 60 actually, just like minutes

[chrisBob]

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.