A system of timekeeping used in Linux and Unix based computers. This is simply a count of the number of seconds elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970, in the UTC timezone, not counting leap-seconds.
Unix Epoch
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A system of timekeeping used in Linux and Unix based computers. This is simply a count of the number of seconds elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970, in the UTC timezone, not counting leap-seconds.