alt Hacker NewsWhat's Christian about Unix time? I don't recall ever reading that either Thompson or Ritchie was theist at all, much less Christian. And the division of the solar day into 24 hours of 60 minutes of 60 seconds is not Christian but, mostly, Sumerian: both pagan and Eastern.
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dmurray • last Wednesday at 1:59 PM
It's an offshoot of the Gregorian calendar, being offset from it by a whole number of years.
And Thompson and Ritchie grew up and worked in a majority-Christian country: their individual faith doesn't have much to do with it.
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Unix time is explicitly anti-Christian!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_Daemon
>The copyright on the official BSD Daemon images is owned by Marshall Kirk McKusick, a very early BSD developer who worked with Bill Joy. McKusick has freely licensed the mascot for individual "personal use within the bounds of good taste (an example of bad taste was a picture of the BSD Daemon blowtorching a Solaris logo)."[ Any use requires both a copyright notice and attribution.
Blowtorching a Solaris logo sounds like it's in good taste to me! Just not blowing it without a torch.