Unix time

A widely used date and time representation that measures time by the number of nonleap seconds that have elapsed since 00:00:00 UTC on January 1, 1970.

Noun

  1. A widely used date and time representation that measures time by the number of nonleap seconds that have elapsed since 00:00:00 UTC on January 1, 1970.

    Synonyms: POSIX time

  2. An individual timestamp using this system.

Forms

Unix times UNIX time