UNIX Approaches Ripe Old Age of One Billion: “In the first year of the new millenium, UNIX will … be one billion seconds old. That’s right, the big One-E-Nine. The UNIX epoch dates from January 1st, 1970. Every UNIX system in the world worth its salt keeps track of time by counting every single second since the midnight just before that auspicious date.” The time is near… In fact, tomorrow 9/8 at 21:46 Eastern time.