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It's time to mentally prepare yourselves for this (lemmy.world)
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[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 months ago

You're referring to UNIX time. And you're correct.

It's a count of how many seconds from midnight, January first, 1970, UTC.

Local computers update that time, still in UTC, from time servers, usually over NTP, then translate that time reading from UNIX time in UTC, to a human readable format in the local time zone.

All computers are still keeping track of time from Epoch in UTC.