The second half century of Unix time is now under way

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There is some disagreement over whether today, January 1, 2020, begins the last year of one decade or whether it begins a whole new decade. On the one hand, there was no Year 0, but on the other hand we don’t generally refer to decades as first, second, third, etc.

There is no doubt, however, that we’re now on the second half of the first century of Unix time, the time…