Your Question: What Time Zone Is Unix Time?

5 Answers. The definition of UNIX timestamp is time zone independent. The UNIX timestamp is the number of seconds (or milliseconds) elapsed since an absolute point in time, midnight of Jan 1 1970 in UTC time. (UTC is Greenwich Mean Time without Daylight Savings time adjustments.)

Is Unix time in UTC?

Unix timestamps are always based on UTC (otherwise known as GMT). … It is reasonable to say “a Unix timestamp in seconds”, or “a Unix timestamp in milliseconds”. Some prefer the phrasing “milliseconds since the Unix epoch (without regard to leap seconds)”.

Is Unix time GMT?

Technically, no. Even though epoch time is the means elapsed seconds since 1/1/70 00:00:00 the real “GMT” (UTC) is not. UTC time needed to be changed a few times to take in to account the slowing speed of the rotating earth. As everybody wrote, most people use epoch at UTC.