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Unix time, or POSIX time, is a system for describing points in time, defined as the number of seconds elapsed since midnight proleptic Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) of January 1, 1970, not counting leap seconds. It is used widely, not only in Unix-like operating systems, but also in many other computing systems and file formats.

Often you need to convert from either a Unix timestamp to Readable Date/time or from Date/Time to a Unix timestamp.

Here a collection of online conversions tools etc.

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