Unix time

See also: UNIX time

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Unix time (countable and uncountable, plural Unix times)

  1. (computing, uncountable) A widely used date and time representation that measures time by the number of nonleap seconds that have elapsed since 00:00:00 UTC on January 1, 1970.
    Synonym: POSIX time
  2. (computing, countable) An individual timestamp using this system.

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