Computer & Digital
Unix Time
Seconds since 1 Jan 1970, UTC · itself a running clock
The count of seconds since 00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970, the epoch beneath most computers. It passes two billion in 2033 and famously risks overflow in 2038 on 32-bit systems.
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In UTC at 02:02 on October 27, 2026, this calendar read 1793066526. The reading above is live, in your own time zone.
At a glance
- Type
- A continuous count of seconds
- Origin
- Unix, at Bell Labs, around 1970
- Day
- Exactly 86,400 seconds
- Leap rule
- Leap seconds are not counted
- Counts from
- 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970
- Where it’s used
- Nearly every computer and phone keeps time this way underneath
- How it’s worked out here
- Your device’s own clock
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