On 13 February 2009 (Friday) at 23:31:30 GMT the Unix date will be showing exactly: 1234567890.

For the ones that are not familiar with servers… the date on Unix/Linux machines is stored as a number that represents the number of seconds since 1960, on 13 February this number will be 1234567890. This Unix timestamp format is the most common way of storing an accurate date on servers, developers are more familiar with this, because users see the dates formatted in a more user friendly manner like “13 February, 23:31″ rather than “1234567890″.

Tags: 01234567890, linux, stamp, time, timestamp, unix

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