Returns the number of seconds since January 1st, 1970, Midnight, in Greenwich (GMT). Also known as "Unix time", "timestamp" or "epoch". Example: ====== clock seconds ====== on Dec 10 2004, 11:44:22, returns 1102686262 <> [LV] Is the epoch the same on all platforms and operating systems? [KBK] - If it isn't, that's a bug. The epoch is 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z - that is, 00:00 UTC at the start of 1 January 1970. It was once true that MacOS9 and below used a different epoch, but that proved to be too confusing for everyone. [bll] 2015-2-14 The epoch on DOS (and the FAT* filesystems) was 1980-01-01. [clock seconds] returns the seconds since 1970, so it has very nice cross platform compatibility. Congrats to whoever did that. Apparently Windows has an epoch starting in 1601. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_time%|%Wikipedia: System Time%|% ---- [RS]: Find out what your epoch is, without timezone offset, with clock format 0 -gmt 1 <> ---- **See also** * [clock] <> Command | Date and Time