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Re:The Unix timestamp will begin with 16 this Sunday by gerikson on Saturday September 12, 2020 @01:13PM (#24453863)
"A Deepness..." also used SI multiples of seconds to denote something approximating 24 hours, a week, a month etc.
Re:The Unix timestamp will begin with 16 this Sunday by fanf2 on Saturday September 12, 2020 @04:24PM (#24455306)
A megasecond is a useful quantity: it's a bit less than 12 days. I mentally approximate it to a fortnight, partly because of the VMS bootloader which used microfortnights as an approximation for seconds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unusual_units_of_measu...

Another handy time_t approximation is that a year is about 2^25 seconds, or 32 megaseconds.