How to get the current epoch time in …

June 22nd, 2010

Perl time
PHP time()
Ruby Time.now (or Time.new). To display the epoch: Time.now.to_i
Python import time first, then time.time()
Java long epoch = System.currentTimeMillis()/1000;
Microsoft .NET C# epoch = (DateTime.Now.ToUniversalTime().Ticks - 621355968000000000) / 10000000;
VBScript/ASP DateDiff("s", "01/01/1970 00:00:00", Now())
Erlang calendar:datetime_to_gregorian_seconds(calendar:now_to_universal_time( now()))-719528*24*3600.
MySQL SELECT unix_timestamp(now()) More information
PostgreSQL SELECT extract(epoch FROM now());
Oracle PL/SQL SELECT (SYSDATE - TO_DATE('01-01-1970 00:00:00', 'DD-MM-YYYY HH24:MI:SS')) *
24 * 60 * 60 FROM DUAL
SQL Server SELECT DATEDIFF(s, '1970-01-01 00:00:00', GETUTCDATE())
JavaScript Math.round(new Date().getTime()/1000.0) getTime() returns time in milliseconds.
Unix/Linux date +%s
Other OS’s Command line: perl -e "print time" (If Perl is installed on your system)

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