Talk:Unix time/Archives/2019
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Bad Terminology: Epoch Time
I've tried a simple edit in the past, but it was undone. Basically, there are a lot of people using the term "epoch time" on other sites and pointing here as proof that it is valid. The word "epoch" is a simple English noun, and Wikipedia describes it well in Epoch (reference date), which also has a list of other epochs used in computing. By inventing this term "epoch time", we've started a vocabulary of programmers saying things like "I have an epoch of 1499289809..." which is of course erroneous, as the epoch would always be 0 of any form of timestamp, and is explicitly 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC for Unix Time.
Can we please remove the "epoch time" terminology and add a paragraph explaining that this usage is erroneous and should be avoided? We can leave the redirect in place so people find it. Thanks.
mj1856 (talk) 21:26, 5 July 2017 (UTC)
- I've asked for a citation on UNIX/POSIX time being called "epoch time". Unless somebody can cough up such a citation - a citation not saying "well, Wikipedia links Epoch time to Unix time", as that would be a clear case of citogenesis - that claim should be removed from the article, and the redirect removed. Guy Harris (talk) 21:57, 5 July 2017 (UTC)
- Two years later, it was still here. Did my best to replace it. Paradox (talk) 17:22, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
- Thanks. I changed epoch time to redirect to epoch (computing) rather than Unix time. Guy Harris (talk) 19:09, 16 June 2019 (UTC)