• Unix

    A Brief History of Time

    Noooooo – a different Brief History of Time… Time is important; so important that it’s epic! Or epoch more specifically. The epoch is a date and time from which a computer measures the time on the system. Most operating systems derive their time from the number of seconds that have passed since January 1st, 1970 when the clock struck midnight. Why? Because this is when time began – likely the Catch-22 the movie, which came out later that year was made based on this fact. As with most things awesome in computing, this came from Unix. More specifically, taken from Unix Epoch time.  MATLAB uses January 0, 1BC – which…