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 ...
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 ...
Unix time, also known as 'epoch time,' is the number of seconds that have passed since Jan 1, 1970. As Unix turns 50, let's take a look at what worries kernel developers. 2020 is a significant year ...
[danjovic] came up with a nifty entry for our 2025 One-Hertz Challenge that lands somewhere between the categories of Ridiculous and Clockwork. It’s a clock that few hackers, if any, could read on ...
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 ...
The link What Every Programmer Should Know about Time was recently posted on DZone and was a highly popular link. It references the original Emil Mikulic post Time and What Programmers Should Know ...
Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Last month, it was reported that a bug had been discovered that caused some recent iOS devices to be ...
Oh Internet nerds, I love you because I’m one of you. But even I had to look up this 1234567890 meme that’s been bouncing around. If you’ve been wished a “happy 1234567890” or other similarly obtuse ...
Almost everyone thinks that Unix originated with Thomson, Ritchie, and others at Bell Labs in 1969/70, and that's correct but not true. They wrote the first code, originated many of the technologies ...
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 ...