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Unix time

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Current Unix time
1720719875(update)
(2024-07-11T17:44:35+00:00)
Unix time passed1000000000seconds in 9 September 2001 01:46:40 UTC.[1]

Unix timeis the number of seconds that have passed since the initialdateandtimeknown by UNIX as Tuesday 1 January 197000:00:00UTC.[2]It is mostly used inUnix-likeand many otheroperating systems.People can check Unix time on most Unix computers by typingdate +%son theUnix command line.

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  1. ↑Manjdo, Farhad."Unix Tick Tocks to a Billion | WIRED".Wired.Retrieved25 February2023.
  2. ↑"The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, section 4.16 Seconds Since the Epoch".The Open Group.Retrieved22 January2017.


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