Unix Timestamp

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The current Unix timestamp measured in seconds since 1^st January 1970 UTC.

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🕒 What is a Unix Timestamp?

A Unix timestamp is a number representing seconds since 1^st January, 1970 UTC.

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Unix timestamps can be recorded in milliseconds for greater precision.

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What is Unix Time?

Unix time is the time standard for Unix operating systems, and is used to create timestamps represented as seconds since 1^st January, 1970 UTC. It is now an industry standard and widely used in other computer systems and software.

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What is Unix?

Unix is a family of operating systems originally created in the 1970s by Bell Labs.

Modern operating systems such as macOS or BSD are based on Unix.

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What is UTC?

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the global time standard used to set time zones and civil time.

The UTC standard is defined by the International Telecommunication Union, an agency of the United Nations.

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What are leap-seconds?

Leap seconds are one-second adjustments to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) to compensate for differences between atomic time and solar time caused by changes to the earths rotation.

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Which emojis best represent time?

There are many time related emojis including the standard clock emojis which represent different times 🕒, mantlepiece clock 🕰️, stopwatch ⏱️, alarm clock ⏰ and more.

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Unix Timestamp Code Examples

Learn how to work with Unix timestamps in different programming languages including JavaScript, Python, Java, C, C++, PHP, and Swift.

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