Unix time, also known as “epoch time” is, of course, the number of seconds that have passed since Jan 1, 1970. It’s hard to think in Unix time.

A stark warning about the upcoming Epochalypse, also known as the "Year 2038 problem," has come from the past, as National Museum Of Computing system restorers have discovered an unsetting issue while ...

I have several times appreciated the fact that Java (and by extension, Groovy) base time against the same epoch as Unix. Java and Unix both use midnight, January 1, 1970 UTC / GMT as their epoch time.

Unix time after the 32-bit signed integer has overflowed. For an unpatched system using a signed 32-bit integer to track Unix time, the immediate consequences could be severe.

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

In 1997 a set of DEC tapes were provided by Dennis Ritchie, as historical artifacts for those interested in the gestation of the UNIX operating system. The resulting archive files have recently bee… ...