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Why do we use base 60 for time and base 10 for everything else. Why has no one decided to integrate it. (lemmy.world)
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Thought of this in the shower this morning, if anyone has an answer I'd be very interested!

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[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unix time is base 10 and I’d say it is pretty widely used. Not for wristwatches but by all kinds of software on the device you’re using to read this right now.

[–] person594@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Unix time is just the number of seconds since January 1 1970, isn't it? How is that base 10, or any other base? If anything, you might argue it's base 2, since computers generally store integers in binary, but the definition is base-independent afaik.