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 ...

I've been away from doing anything extensive in MySQL for almost 3 years now, having been using MS SQL Server almost exclusively. But I'm helping a friend redesign the DB for his site (PHP/MySQL) and ...

A thread at WebmasterWorld named Google Cache Date: Dec 31, 1969 is proof that Google uses Unix time stamps for the cache database. Dec 31, 1969 is the default value for a time stamp in Unix. For many ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sometimes the projects we think are easy to design are the ones on which we end up making the most mistakes. The UNIX clock that you see in the picture above is one of these projects. For our readers ...