The Unix epoch (or Unix time or POSIX time or Unix timestamp) is the number of seconds that have elapsed since January 1, 1970 (midnight UTC/GMT), not counting leap seconds (in ISO 8601: 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z).
Literally speaking the epoch is Unix time 0 (midnight 1/1/1970), but epoch is often used as a synonym for Unix time.
Some systems store epoch dates as a signed 32-bit integer, which might cause problems on January 19, 2038 (known as the Year 2038 problem or Y2038).
Human-readable time | Seconds |
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1 hour | 3600 seconds |
1 day | 86400 seconds |
1 week | 604800 seconds |
1 month (30.44 days) | 2629743 seconds |
1 year (365.24 days) | 31556926 seconds |