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Re:The Unix timestamp will begin with 16 this Sunday by stan_rogers on Saturday September 12, 2020 @03:21PM (#24454789)
No, that's how the metre is defined. The second is defined by the transition between two hyperfine states of cesium 133 (9,192,631,770 'oscillations').
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