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I don't think this is true, because epoch time does not have a timezone, because 0 already corresponds to a certain timezone. Although epoch time isn't exactly
by forgotmypw17 6y ago
I don't think this is true, because epoch time does not have a timezone, because 0 already corresponds to a certain timezone. Although epoch time isn't exactly "just UTC", as explained in the very interesting StackOverflow question below, it is close enough, and it does not change with the timezone.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23062515/do-unix-timestamps-change-across-timezones https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23062515/do-unix-timesta...
- zoshi 6y agoA timezone can’t be encoded with a Unix time stamp, or a date without a time, or just a time. Unix timestamps ignore leap seconds and treat days as 86400 seconds, so it doesn’t correspond directly to UTC. And they aren’t readable by humans. There are many reasons Unix timestamps aren’t appropriate for encoding a date and time.