Unix Epoch Time

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Dec 18, 2023
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Unix epoch time is a way to represent time as the number of seconds that have elapsed since 00:00:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) (Thursday, January 1, 1970).

Many computer systems and programming languages use epoch time as a standardized way to represent and measure time.

os.time() and os.difftime() return time as a Unix Epoch integer.