The UNIX clock that you see in the picture above is one of these projects. For our readers that don’t know it, UNIX time is the number of seconds since 00:00 on January 1st 1970.

UNIX users around the world witnessed a historical moment in computing history Saturday when the epoch time clock rolled over onto 1234567890.

The UNIX clock that you see in the picture above is one of these projects. For our readers that don’t know it, UNIX time is the number of seconds since 00:00 on January 1st 1970.

Time for Unix nerds to celebrate 1234567890 Day Any respectable Unix clock will tell you that Friday will mark 1,234,567,890 seconds past January 1, 1970. Why not celebrate?

GPS has worked off of atomic clocks for decades, leap-second free. But some believe that UNIX and Linux, its ultra-popular clone, should continue to get their time from the leap-second-friendly ...

Does anyone know if Linux has support for timers that are sensitive to changes in the system clock? That is, if I set a timer to go off in a day, and then change the system clock 2 days ahead, the ...

How does one prevent the Windows clock from resetting the time when you use a Linux Live CD? I have to use one for work and don't know how to make the Windows clock go back to the normal time.

You've probably heard of Linux as an alternative to Windows on the PC. Now it's on its way to handhelds.