The birth of an epoch The year 1970 is probably not that significant to most of you. It is the era in which computers began counting seconds. Yes, it was that exciting a time. What a day it was. Right now, as I write this, exactly 944,600,004 seconds have ticked off since the epoch.
Time sure does fly.
Well, as you can see, dealing with time as a measure of seconds is certainly simple for the computer, but a real headache for us humans. Second, you cannot set an Epoch time greater than 2147483647, the maximum value that can be represented in a 32-bit integer. Copyright 2001 INT Media Group, Incorporated. All Rights Reserved.