Unix epoch is a point in time chosen as the origin for various programming languages, it serves as a reference point from which time is measured. The unix time technically does not change no matter ...

The link What Every Programmer Should Know about Time was recently posted on DZone and was a highly popular link. It references the original Emil Mikulic post Time and What Programmers Should Know ...

Admit it: when you first heard of the concept of the Unix Epoch, you sat down with a calculator to see when exactly 2³¹-1 seconds would be from midnight UTC on January 1, 1970. Personally, I did that ...

As of 7p Eastern (or midnight GMT), the Unix time clock reached 15000 days, a significant milestone in computing history. The last time we turned a 5k mark (day 10000) was May 19th, 1997, nearly 14 ...

Good morning everyone, and what a lovely start to the new year it is, because it’s your birthday! Happy birthday, it’s your 50th! What’s that you say, you aren’t 50 today? (Looks…) That’s what all ...

The new year rolled in at 1262304000, Unix time that is. It’s a little hard to imagine that Unix is now more than 1.2 billion seconds old. Seems only yesterday that I was trying my first pipes and ...

The Year 2038 Bug is caused by the overflow of 32-bit signed integers used to track Unix time, resetting system clocks to ...

Unix weenies everywhere will be partying like it's 1234567890 this Friday. That's because, at precisely 3:31:30 p.m. Pacific time on February 13, 2009, the 10-digit "epoch time" clock used by most ...