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Also known as POSIX time, Epoch time, Unix timestamp

system for identifying instants in time; the number of seconds that have elapsed since the UTC midnight before 1 January 1970, ignoring leap seconds

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Unix time passed 1000000000 seconds on 2001-09-09T01:46:40Z. It was celebrated in Copenhagen, Denmark, at a party held by the Danish UNIX User Group, at 03:46:40 local time.

Unix time is a date and time representation widely used in computing. It measures time by the number of non-leap seconds that have elapsed since 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970, the Unix epoch. For example, at midnight on 1 January 2010, Unix time was 1262304000.

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