What is epoch time?
The
Unix epoch (or
Unix time or
POSIX time or
Unix timestamp)
is the number of seconds that have elapsed since January 1, 1970
(midnight UTC/GMT), not counting leap seconds (in ISO 8601:
1970-01-01T00:00:00Z).
Literally speaking the epoch is Unix time 0 (midnight 1/1/1970), but
'epoch' is often used as a synonym for 'Unix time'.
Many Unix systems store epoch dates as a signed 32-bit integer, which
might cause problems on January 19, 2038 (known as the Year 2038 problem
or Y2038).
Human readable time | Seconds |
1 hour | 3600 seconds |
1 day | 86400 seconds |
1 week | 604800 seconds |
1 month (30.44 days) | 2629743 seconds |
1 year (365.24 days) | 31556926 seconds |
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