The link What Every Programmer Should Know about Time was recently posted on DZone and was a highly popular link. It references the original Emil Mikulic post Time and What Programmers Should Know ...

The new year rolled in at 1262304000, Unix time that is. It’s a little hard to imagine that Unix is now more than 1.2 billion seconds old. Seems only yesterday that I was trying my first pipes and ...

Any respectable Unix clock will tell you that Friday will mark 1,234,567,890 seconds past January 1, 1970. Why not celebrate? Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Unix epoch is a point in time chosen as the origin for various programming languages, it serves as a reference point from which time is measured. The unix time technically does not change no matter ...

Unix time, also known as 'epoch time,' is the number of seconds that have passed since Jan 1, 1970. As Unix turns 50, let's take a look at what worries kernel developers. 2020 is a significant year ...

Picture this: it’s January 19th, 2038, at exactly 03:14:07 UTC. Somewhere in a data center, a Unix system quietly ticks over its internal clock counter one more time. But instead of moving forward to ...

Oh Internet nerds, I love you because I’m one of you. But even I had to look up this 1234567890 meme that’s been bouncing around. If you’ve been wished a “happy 1234567890” or other similarly obtuse ...

The velociraptors are closing in. The only chance the surviving humans at Jurassic Park have is Lex, an adolescent hacker who has to find way to reactivate the security system. And they're in luck.

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Last month, it was reported that a bug had been discovered that caused some recent iOS devices to be ...

Maybe its pervasiveness has long obscured its origins. But Unix, the operating system that in one derivative or another powers nearly all smartphones sold worldwide, was born 50 years ago from the ...