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Unix time [a] is a date and time representation widely used in computing. It measures time by the number of non-leap seconds that have elapsed since 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970, the Unix epoch. For example, at midnight on 1 January 2010, Unix time was 1262304000. Unix time originated as the system time of Unix operating systems.
Python: datetime.now().timestamp() 1 μs (*) 1 January 1970 RPG: CURRENT(DATE), %DATE CURRENT(TIME), %TIME: 1 s 1 January 0001 to 31 December 9999 CURRENT(TIMESTAMP), %TIMESTAMP: 1 μs Ruby: Time.now() [42] 1 μs (*) 1 January 1970 (to 19 January 2038 prior to Ruby 1.9.2 [43]) Scheme (get-universal-time) [44] 1 s 1 January 1900 Smalltalk: Time ...
The command is available in various Unix shells, as well as in PowerShell, ReactOS, [2] and KolibriOS. [3] It is also included as external command in PTS-DOS where it keeps a resident part, sometimes in conventional memory. [4] Since most current history commands are shell built-ins, details depend on the choice of shell.
Many computer systems measure time and date using Unix time, an international standard for digital timekeeping.Unix time is defined as the number of seconds elapsed since 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970 (an arbitrarily chosen time based on the creation of the first Unix system), which has been dubbed the Unix epoch.
In a popular Unix shell Bash, time is a special keyword, that can be put before a pipeline (or single command), that measures time of entire pipeline, not just a singular (first) command, and uses a different default format, and puts empty line before reporting times:
On Unix-like operating systems, rdate is a tool for querying the current time from a network server and, optionally, setting the system time. Rdate uses the Time Protocol . The Time Protocol is generally considered obsolete and has been replaced by the Network Time Protocol (NTP).
Software timekeeping systems vary widely in the resolution of time measurement; some systems may use time units as large as a day, while others may use nanoseconds.For example, for an epoch date of midnight UTC (00:00) on 1 January 1900, and a time unit of a second, the time of the midnight (24:00) between 1 January 1900 and 2 January 1900 is represented by the number 86400, the number of ...
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