Unix time (English Wikipedia)

Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Unix time" in English language version.

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android.com (Global: 3,145th place; English: 2,798th place)

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  • "Time Overview". Android Open Source Project. Google LLC. Archived from the original on 1 May 2023. Retrieved 1 May 2023.

apple.com (Global: 67th place; English: 64th place)

developer.apple.com

  • "Mac OS X Manual Page for localtime(3)". Apple Documentation Archive. Apple Inc. Archived from the original on 22 July 2022. Retrieved 1 May 2023.
  • "NSDate". Apple Developer Documentation. Apple Inc. Archived from the original on 1 May 2023. Retrieved 1 May 2023.
  • Apple File System Reference (PDF), p. 57, archived (PDF) from the original on 5 November 2022, retrieved 19 October 2022, This timestamp is represented as the number of nanoseconds since January 1, 1970 at 0:00 UTC, disregarding leap seconds

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  • Unix Programmer's Manual (PDF) (1st ed.). 3 November 1971. Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 March 2022. Retrieved 28 March 2012. time returns the time since 00:00:00, Jan. 1, 1971, measured in sixtieths of a second.

bitsavers.org (Global: 4,153rd place; English: 2,291st place)

  • Unix Programmer's Manual (PDF) (3rd ed.). 15 March 1972. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 February 2023. Retrieved 11 February 2023. time returns the time since 00:00:00, Jan. 1, 1972, measured in sixtieths of a second...The time is stored in 32 bits. This guarantees a crisis every 2.26 years.

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  • "The GNU C Library (glibc)". The GNU Operating Sisyem. Free Software Foundation. Archived from the original on 22 April 2016. Retrieved 1 May 2023. The GNU C Library project provides the core libraries for the GNU system and GNU/Linux systems, as well as many other systems that use Linux as the kernel.

google.com (Global: 163rd place; English: 185th place)

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  • "timespec". NetBSD Manual Pages. 12 April 2011. Archived from the original on 10 August 2019. Retrieved 5 July 2019.

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  • "Precision timekeeping". Sources for time zone and daylight saving time data. Archived from the original on 16 October 2017. Retrieved 30 May 2022. The tz code and data support leap seconds via an optional "right" configuration where a computer's internal time_t integer clock counts every TAI second, as opposed to the default "posix" configuration where the internal clock ignores leap seconds. The two configurations agree for timestamps starting with 1972-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (time_t 63 072 000) and diverge for timestamps starting with time_t 78 796 800, which corresponds to the first leap second 1972-06-30 23:59:60 UTC in the "right" configuration, and to 1972-07-01 00:00:00 UTC in the "posix" configuration.

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  • "Time Scales". Network Time Protocol Wiki. 24 July 2019. Archived from the original on 12 January 2020. Retrieved 12 January 2020.

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  • "8.5. Date/Time Types". PostgreSQL Documentation. The PostgreSQL Global Development Group. 9 February 2023. Archived from the original on 1 May 2023. Retrieved 1 May 2023.

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  • "RAR 5.0 archive format". www.rarlab.com. win.rar GmbH. Archived from the original on 1 May 2023. Retrieved 1 May 2023. Time is stored in Unix time_t format if this flags [sic] is set and in Windows FILETIME format otherwise

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  • Farhad, Manjoo (8 September 2001). "Unix Tick Tocks to a Billion". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Archived from the original on 11 September 2022. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
  • "The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, Rationale: Base Definitions, section A.4 General Concepts". The Open Group. Archived from the original on 15 November 2017. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
  • "The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, section 4.16 Seconds Since the Epoch". The Open Group. Archived from the original on 22 December 2017. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
  • Mills, David L. (12 May 2012). "The NTP Timescale and Leap Seconds". eecis.udel.edu. Archived from the original on 15 May 2012. Retrieved 21 August 2017.
  • "Precision timekeeping". Sources for time zone and daylight saving time data. Archived from the original on 16 October 2017. Retrieved 30 May 2022. The tz code and data support leap seconds via an optional "right" configuration where a computer's internal time_t integer clock counts every TAI second, as opposed to the default "posix" configuration where the internal clock ignores leap seconds. The two configurations agree for timestamps starting with 1972-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (time_t 63 072 000) and diverge for timestamps starting with time_t 78 796 800, which corresponds to the first leap second 1972-06-30 23:59:60 UTC in the "right" configuration, and to 1972-07-01 00:00:00 UTC in the "posix" configuration.
  • "Time Scales". Network Time Protocol Wiki. 24 July 2019. Archived from the original on 12 January 2020. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
  • Markus Kuhn. "Modernized API for ISO C". www.cl.cam.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 26 September 2020. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
  • "timespec". NetBSD Manual Pages. 12 April 2011. Archived from the original on 10 August 2019. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  • "time.h(0P)". Linux manual page. Archived from the original on 27 June 2019. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  • Unix Programmer's Manual (PDF) (1st ed.). 3 November 1971. Archived (PDF) from the original on 5 March 2022. Retrieved 28 March 2012. time returns the time since 00:00:00, Jan. 1, 1971, measured in sixtieths of a second.
  • Unix Programmer's Manual (PDF) (3rd ed.). 15 March 1972. Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 February 2023. Retrieved 11 February 2023. time returns the time since 00:00:00, Jan. 1, 1972, measured in sixtieths of a second...The time is stored in 32 bits. This guarantees a crisis every 2.26 years.
  • "Posix Has Become Outdated (2016) [pdf] | Hacker News". news.ycombinator.com. Archived from the original on 18 March 2025. Retrieved 23 July 2025.
  • "The Open Group Technical Standard Base Specifications Issue 7 (2018 edition)". IEEE and The Open Group. Archived from the original on 1 May 2023. Retrieved 1 May 2023.
  • "time, _time32, _time64". learn.microsoft.net. Microsoft Corporation. 13 February 2023. Archived from the original on 1 May 2023. Retrieved 1 May 2023.
  • "The GNU C Library (glibc)". The GNU Operating Sisyem. Free Software Foundation. Archived from the original on 22 April 2016. Retrieved 1 May 2023. The GNU C Library project provides the core libraries for the GNU system and GNU/Linux systems, as well as many other systems that use Linux as the kernel.
  • "Mac OS X Manual Page for localtime(3)". Apple Documentation Archive. Apple Inc. Archived from the original on 22 July 2022. Retrieved 1 May 2023.
  • "NSDate". Apple Developer Documentation. Apple Inc. Archived from the original on 1 May 2023. Retrieved 1 May 2023.
  • "Time Overview". Android Open Source Project. Google LLC. Archived from the original on 1 May 2023. Retrieved 1 May 2023.
  • "PE Format - Win32 apps". learn.microsoft.com. Microsoft Corporation. 24 March 2023. Archived from the original on 29 April 2023. Retrieved 1 May 2023.
  • "Instant (Java Platform SE 8 )". docs.oracle.com. Oracle. Archived from the original on 25 November 2016. Retrieved 1 May 2023.
  • "time — Time access and conversions", Python documentation, archived from the original on 22 July 2022, retrieved 25 July 2022
  • "Date - JavaScript | MDN". developer.mozilla.org. Mozilla. Archived from the original on 21 July 2021. Retrieved 1 May 2023.
  • Apple File System Reference (PDF), p. 57, archived (PDF) from the original on 5 November 2022, retrieved 19 October 2022, This timestamp is represented as the number of nanoseconds since January 1, 1970 at 0:00 UTC, disregarding leap seconds
  • "Data Structures and Algorithms". The Linux Kernel documentation. Linux Kernel Organization, Inc. Archived from the original on 1 May 2023. Retrieved 1 May 2023.
  • "RAR 5.0 archive format". www.rarlab.com. win.rar GmbH. Archived from the original on 1 May 2023. Retrieved 1 May 2023. Time is stored in Unix time_t format if this flags [sic] is set and in Windows FILETIME format otherwise
  • "Tape Archive (tar) File Format Family". www.loc.gov. Library of Congress. 7 January 2021. Archived from the original on 1 May 2023. Retrieved 1 May 2023.
  • "Date and Time Functions", MySQL 8.0 Reference Manual, archived from the original on 19 October 2022, retrieved 19 October 2022
  • "8.5. Date/Time Types". PostgreSQL Documentation. The PostgreSQL Global Development Group. 9 February 2023. Archived from the original on 1 May 2023. Retrieved 1 May 2023.
  • Saxena, Ashutosh; Rawat, Sanjay. "IDRBT Working Paper No. 9" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 May 2012.
  • "FILETIME (minwinbase.h) - Win32 apps". Microsoft Learn. Microsoft. 2 April 2021. Archived from the original on 10 March 2023. Retrieved 9 March 2023.
  • "File Times - Win32 apps". Microsoft Learn. Microsoft. 7 January 2021. Archived from the original on 8 March 2023. Retrieved 9 March 2023.
  • "How to convert date/time attributes in Active Directory to standard time format". Microsoft Learn. Microsoft. Archived from the original on 20 October 2022. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
  • W. Richard Stevens; Bill Fenner; Andrew M. Rudoff (2004). UNIX Network Programming. Addison-Wesley Professional. pp. 582–. ISBN 978-0-13-141155-5. Archived from the original on 30 March 2019. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
  • "datetime — Basic date and time types". Python Standard Library Reference. Python Software Foundation. Archived from the original on 19 October 2022. Retrieved 20 October 2022. Attributes: year, month, day, hour, minute, second, microsecond, and tzinfo.
  • Tweney, Dylan (12 February 2009). "Unix Lovers to Party Like It's 1234567890". Wired. Archived from the original on 29 March 2014. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
  • "Slashdot | date +%s Turning 1111111111". 17 March 2005. Archived from the original on 12 January 2020. Retrieved 12 January 2020.[unreliable source?]
  • "Unix time facts & trivia – Unix Time . Info". Archived from the original on 27 October 2017.
  • Neumann, Peter G. (15 October 2001). "The RISKS Digest, Volume 21 Issue 69". The Risks Digest. 21 (69). Archived from the original on 22 October 2015. Retrieved 6 December 2012.
  • "Technical Problems". linuxmafia.com. Archived from the original on 11 October 2012. Retrieved 21 August 2017.
  • "Google 1234567890 Logo". Google Inc. Archived from the original on 11 January 2013. Retrieved 28 January 2013.
  • Ahmed, Murad (13 February 2009). "At the third stroke, the Unix time will be 1234567890". The Times. Archived from the original on 14 November 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2020.

wired.com (Global: 193rd place; English: 152nd place)

  • Farhad, Manjoo (8 September 2001). "Unix Tick Tocks to a Billion". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Archived from the original on 11 September 2022. Retrieved 16 October 2022.
  • Tweney, Dylan (12 February 2009). "Unix Lovers to Party Like It's 1234567890". Wired. Archived from the original on 29 March 2014. Retrieved 12 March 2017.

worldcat.org (Global: 5th place; English: 5th place)

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  • Farhad, Manjoo (8 September 2001). "Unix Tick Tocks to a Billion". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Archived from the original on 11 September 2022. Retrieved 16 October 2022.

ycombinator.com (Global: 8,237th place; English: 5,182nd place)

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