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What Is the Current Unix Timestamp?
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Seconds since Jan 1, 1970
The current Unix timestamp — the number of seconds since January 1, 1970 — is shown above and updates every second.
What Is a Unix Timestamp?
A Unix timestamp, also called epoch time, counts the number of seconds that have elapsed since midnight UTC on January 1, 1970. It's the standard way computers, databases, and programming languages track time internally.
Because it's a single number rather than a date and time string, Unix timestamps are easy to compare, sort, and calculate durations with — which is why they're used so widely in software development.
Frequently Asked Questions
The live Unix timestamp is shown above, updating every second.
Epoch time refers to the same thing as a Unix timestamp — the count of seconds since January 1, 1970 at 00:00:00 UTC.
January 1, 1970 was chosen as an arbitrary but convenient reference point when Unix operating systems were first developed.