Unix time | Unix timestamp to date
DateandtimerepresentationsystemwidelyusedincomputingCurrentUnixtime1681230411(update)2023-04-11T16:26:51+00:00Unixtimepassed1000000000secondson2001-09-09T01:46:40Z.[1]ItwascelebratedinCopenhagen,DenmarkatapartyheldbytheDanishUNIXUserGroupat03:46:40localtime.Unixtime[a]isadateandtimerepresentationwidelyusedincomputing.Itmeasurestimebythenumberofsecondsthathaveelapsedsince00:00:00UTCon1January1970,thebeginningoftheUnixepoch,withoutadjustmentsmadeduetoleapseconds.[3]Unixtimeoriginatedasthesyste...
Date and time representation system widely used in computing
Current Unix time1681230411 (update)2023-04-11T16:26:51+00:00 Unix time passed 1000000000 seconds on 2001-09-09T01:46:40Z.[1] It was celebrated in Copenhagen, Denmark at a party held by the Danish UNIX User Group at 03:46:40 local time.Unix time[a] is a date and time representation widely used in computing. It measures time by the number of seconds that have elapsed since 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970, the beginning of the Unix epoch, without adjustments made due to leap seconds.[3]
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.[5][6][7]
Definition[edit]Two layers of encoding make up Unix time. The first layer encodes a point in time as a scalar real number which represents the number of seconds that have passed since 00:00:00 UTC on Thursday, 1 January 1970....