Also known as Epoch time.
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Unix time, or POSIX time, is a system for describing points in time, defined as the number of seconds elapsed since midnight Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) of January 1, 1970, not counting leap seconds. It is widely used not only on Unix-like operating systems but also in many other computing systems. It is neither a linear representation of time nor a true representation of UTC (though it is frequently mistaken for both) as the times it represents are UTC but it has no way of representing UTC leap seconds (e.g. 1998-12-31 23:59:60).
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I first came across this years ago while manually converting a database which used Unix Time for the DB record time stamps. Back then it was common practice to use this technique to store dates.
So, are you gonna party like it's 1234567890? You can watch the event count down (count up?) here:
http://coolepochcountdown.com/
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