The new year rolled in at 1262304000, Unix time that is. It’s a little hard to imagine that Unix is now more than 1.2 billion seconds old. Seems only yesterday that I was trying my first pipes ...

Because Java (and Groovy) base their date/time APIs (Date, Date, and Calendar) off of the same epoch starting time as Unix, it is easier to deal with dates and times when writing Groovy scripts in ...

During restoration work on old systems, the British National Museum of Computing discovered an unexpected problem that could ...

Unix users are always looking for ways to make their systems a little easier to use or themselves more productive. In today’s column, we’ll look at a series of helpful aliases that might ...

Museum boffins find code that crashes in 2037 A stark warning about the upcoming Epochalypse, also known as the "Year 2038 problem," has come from the past, as National Museum Of Computing system ...

Like the bricking problem, these ghost emails are related to the Unix, or Epoch, time - a reference point that devices count away from so they can work out the date.