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  2. Unix time - Wikipedia

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    Unix time is currently defined as the number of non-leap seconds which have passed since 00:00:00 UTC on Thursday, 1 January 1970, which is referred to as the Unix epoch. [3] Unix time is typically encoded as a signed integer . The Unix time 0 is exactly midnight UTC on 1 January 1970, with Unix time incrementing by 1 for every non-leap second ...

  3. Time zone - Wikipedia

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    The DateTime object in Perl supports all entries in the IANA time zone database and includes the ability to get, set and convert between time zones. PHP. The DateTime objects and related functions have been compiled into the PHP core since 5.2. This includes the ability to get and set the default script time zone, and DateTime is aware of its ...

  4. Julian day - Wikipedia

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    The Julian date (JD) of any instant is the Julian day number plus the fraction of a day since the preceding noon in Universal Time. Julian dates are expressed as a Julian day number with a decimal fraction added. [8] For example, the Julian Date for 00:30:00.0 UT January 1, 2013, is 2 456 293.520 833. [9]

  5. World Wide Web - Wikipedia

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    The World Wide Web functions as an application layer protocol that is run "on top of" (figuratively) the Internet, helping to make it more functional. The advent of the Mosaic web browser helped to make the web much more usable, to include the display of images and moving images ( GIFs ).

  6. Datalog - Wikipedia

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    A combination of a graph database (Asami), and a rules processing system (Naga) that evaluates native Datalog syntax and executes using the database. Runs in browsers (memory), on the JVM (memory/files), or natively (memory/files). The library is designed to query and formalise relation of n-ary streams using datalog.

  7. UTC offset - Wikipedia

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    The UTC offset is the difference in hours and minutes between Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and local solar time, at a particular place. This difference is expressed with respect to UTC and is generally shown in the format ± [hh]: [mm], ± [hh] [mm], or ± [hh]. So if the time being described is two hours ahead of UTC (such as in Kigali ...

  8. Epoch (computing) - Wikipedia

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    Epoch (computing) In computing, an epoch is a fixed date and time used as a reference from which a computer measures system time. Most computer systems determine time as a number representing the seconds removed from a particular arbitrary date and time. For instance, Unix and POSIX measure time as the number of seconds that have passed since ...

  9. Time in India - Wikipedia

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    India uses only one time zone (even though it spans two geographical time zones) across the whole nation and all its territories, called Indian Standard Time (IST), which equates to UTC+05:30, i.e. five and a half hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). India does not currently observe daylight saving time (DST or summer time).