The UNIX clock that you see in the picture above is one of these projects. For our readers that don’t know it, UNIX time is the number of seconds since 00:00 on January 1st 1970.

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 ...

It now appears that the function related to this problem, Unix Time, is also responsible for a slew of ghostly emails received by users that are dated from 1969 and 1970.

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 ...

UNIX users around the world witnessed a historical moment in computing history Saturday when the epoch time clock rolled over onto 1234567890.

Unix weenies everywhere will be partying like it’s 1234567890 this Friday. That’s because, at precisely 3:31:30 p.m. Pacific time on February 13, 2009, the 10-digit "epoch time" clock used by ...

Happy Unix Epoch Day! As of 7p Eastern (or midnight GMT), the Unix time clock reached 15000 days, a significant milestone in computing history. Unix time tracks the time since January 1, 1970.

During restoration work on old systems, the British National Museum of Computing discovered an unexpected problem that could cause the Year 2038 bug to ...

Unix time celebrates its 1234567890th second. Were you invited to the party?