A new epoch approaches!

Posted byDonnchaPosted inLinuxTags:, , ,

Not long now until the Unix Timestamp flips over to 17 followed by many zeros. Watch it live here or run the following at a terminal:

watch -n1 date +%s
The Unix timestamp caught at 1699998077.

What is the timestamp? It’s the number of seconds since January 1st, 1970 UTC.

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Donncha Ó Caoimh is a software developer at Automattic and WordPress plugin developer. He posts photos at In Photos and can also be found on Mastodon.

3 thoughts on “A new epoch approaches!”

  2. @donncha another major milestone

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