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@sleepybisexual@fearness.org @skaverat@skaverat.net assuming you meant "why" and not "who", it basically boils down to "that's when they started counting". they started on new years to make it a little easier, but it's at 1970 because there just needs to be an arbitrary reference frame (an "epoch") and it was chosen in the early 70's. 1970-01-01Z00:00:00 was chosen arbitrarily because it was "easy to work with" a lot of computer systems use a different epoch for similar arbitrary reasons, for example the Network Time Protocol places zero at 1900-01-01 the concept of an epoch isn't exclusive to computers either. humans have tons of different calendars, typically with religious origin. the gregorian calendar has its epoch (which we write as year 1; an arbitrary choice) around the time Jesus Christ was born