@cynthia cam someone elaborate? I have a daughter obsessed about numbers, I'd love to tell her about it...

@helenajambor @cynthia it’s been 17000000000 seconds since Jan 1, 1970. That date is the “epoch” of Unix time, which a lot of computers use to store a datetime efficiently (computers understand numbers better and easier than year-month-date-hour-minute-second). It’s like the 0AD of computers.