The new year rolled in at 1262304000, Unix time that is. It’s a little hard to imagine that Unix is now more than 1.2 billion seconds old. Seems only yesterday that I was trying my first pipes and ...

It’s won’t be the epochalypse of 2038, but 3:31 p.m. PST on Friday offers a moment notable enough for some Unix fans to raise a toast. That’s when Unix computer clocks will reach the time of ...

Unix weenies everywhere will be partying like it's 1234567890 this Friday. That's because, at precisely 3:31:30 p.m. Pacific time on February 13, 2009, the 10-digit "epoch time" clock used by most ...

Picture this: it’s January 19th, 2038, at exactly 03:14:07 UTC. Somewhere in a data center, a Unix system quietly ticks over its internal clock counter one more time. But instead of moving forward to ...

Unix epoch is a point in time chosen as the origin for various programming languages, it serves as a reference point from which time is measured. The unix time technically does not change no matter ...