> POSIX time, also known as Unix time, is the number of seconds since the Unix epoch, which was 1970-01-01 at 00:00:00. … I think there should be a concise explanation of the problem.
I don’t think that the definition that software engineers believe is wrong or misleading at all. It really is the number of seconds that have passed since Unix’s “beginning of time”.
But to address the problem the article brings up, here’s my attempt at a concise definition:
POSIX time, also known as Unix time, is the number of seconds since the Unix epoch, which was 1970-01-01 at 00:00:00, and does not include leap seconds that have been added periodically since the 1970s.
I don’t think that the definition that software engineers believe is wrong or misleading at all. It really is the number of seconds that have passed since Unix’s “beginning of time”.
But to address the problem the article brings up, here’s my attempt at a concise definition:
POSIX time, also known as Unix time, is the number of seconds since the Unix epoch, which was 1970-01-01 at 00:00:00, and does not include leap seconds that have been added periodically since the 1970s.