The Unix epoch (or Unix time or POSIX time or Unix timestamp) is the number of seconds that have elapsed since January 1, 1970 (midnight UTC/GMT).
We're using seconds to get the YEAR > MONTH > DAY > HOUR > MINUTE denomination.
Human readable time |
Seconds |
1 minute |
60 seconds |
1 hour |
3600 seconds |
1 day |
86400 seconds |
1 month (30.44 days) |
2629743 seconds |
1 year (365.24 days) |
31556926 seconds |