What is Unix Time?
Unix time (also known as Epoch time, POSIX time, or Unix timestamp) is a system for describing a point in time. It is the number of seconds that have elapsed since the Unix epoch, excluding leap seconds. The Unix epoch is 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970.
It is widely used in Unix-like and many other operating systems and file formats. Because it is a single number representing a point in time regardless of timezone, it makes storing and comparing dates in databases and programming much simpler.