# Unix time

> system for identifying instants in time; the number of seconds that have elapsed since the UTC midnight before 1 January 1970, ignoring leap seconds

**Wikidata**: [Q14654](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14654)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time)  
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