Unix time

Current Unix time
1725043538 (update)
(2024-08-30T18:45:38+00:00)

Unix time passed 1000000000 seconds in 9 September 2001 01:46:40 UTC.^[1]

Unix time is the number of seconds that have passed since the initial date and time known by UNIX as Tuesday 1 January 1970 00:00:00 UTC.^[2] It is mostly used in Unix-like and many other operating systems. People can check Unix time on most Unix computers by typing <syntaxhighlight lang="text" enclose="none">date +%s</syntaxhighlight> on the Unix command line.

Other pages

Unix Time Media

An animated visual of the 32-bit Unix time overflow which will occur in 2038

Sources

↑ Manjdo, Farhad. "Unix Tick Tocks to a Billion | WIRED". Wired. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
↑ "The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, section 4.16 Seconds Since the Epoch". The Open Group. Retrieved 22 January 2017.

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[1] Manjdo, Farhad. "Unix Tick Tocks to a Billion | WIRED". Wired. Retrieved 25 February 2023.

[single-unix-spec-4.16-2] "The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, section 4.16 Seconds Since the Epoch". The Open Group. Retrieved 22 January 2017.

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