Unix time
Unix time
!Unix time passed 1000000000 seconds on 2001-09-09T01:46:40Z. It was celebrated in Copenhagen, Denmark, at a party held by the [Danish UNIX User Group at 03:46:40 local time.](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/1000000000seconds.jpg/250px-1000000000seconds.jpg)
Unix time
Unix time is a date and time representation widely used in computing. It measures time by the number of non-leap seconds that have elapsed since 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970, the Unix epoch). For example, at midnight on 1 January 2010, Unix time was 1262304000.
Unix time
Unix time originated as the system time of Unix operating systems. It has come to be widely used in other computer operating systems, file systems, programming languages, and databases. In modern computing, values are sometimes stored with higher granularity, such as microseconds or nanoseconds.
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