Unix Timestamp 1600000000

At 2020-09-13 12:26:40 UTC, the Unix timestamp is going to turn 1600000000.

Unix Timestamp Conversion

The following subsections show a few examples of converting the Unix timestamp to a human-readable date.

Python

$ python3 -q
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> datetime.utcfromtimestamp(1_600_000_000)
datetime.datetime(2020, 9, 13, 12, 26, 40)

GNU date (Linux)

$ date -ud @1600000000
Sun Sep 13 12:26:40 UTC 2020

BSD date (macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc.)

$ date -ur 1600000000
Sun Sep 13 12:26:40 UTC 2020

Other Such Dates

All such dates (in UTC) until the end of the current century:

$ python3 -q
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> for t in range(0, 4_200_000_000, 100_000_000):
...     print(f'{t:13_d} - {datetime.utcfromtimestamp(t)}')
...
            0 - 1970-01-01 00:00:00
  100_000_000 - 1973-03-03 09:46:40
  200_000_000 - 1976-05-03 19:33:20
  300_000_000 - 1979-07-05 05:20:00
  400_000_000 - 1982-09-04 15:06:40
  500_000_000 - 1985-11-05 00:53:20
  600_000_000 - 1989-01-05 10:40:00
  700_000_000 - 1992-03-07 20:26:40
  800_000_000 - 1995-05-09 06:13:20
  900_000_000 - 1998-07-09 16:00:00
1_000_000_000 - 2001-09-09 01:46:40
1_100_000_000 - 2004-11-09 11:33:20
1_200_000_000 - 2008-01-10 21:20:00
1_300_000_000 - 2011-03-13 07:06:40
1_400_000_000 - 2014-05-13 16:53:20
1_500_000_000 - 2017-07-14 02:40:00
1_600_000_000 - 2020-09-13 12:26:40
1_700_000_000 - 2023-11-14 22:13:20
1_800_000_000 - 2027-01-15 08:00:00
1_900_000_000 - 2030-03-17 17:46:40
2_000_000_000 - 2033-05-18 03:33:20
2_100_000_000 - 2036-07-18 13:20:00
2_200_000_000 - 2039-09-18 23:06:40
2_300_000_000 - 2042-11-19 08:53:20
2_400_000_000 - 2046-01-19 18:40:00
2_500_000_000 - 2049-03-22 04:26:40
2_600_000_000 - 2052-05-22 14:13:20
2_700_000_000 - 2055-07-24 00:00:00
2_800_000_000 - 2058-09-23 09:46:40
2_900_000_000 - 2061-11-23 19:33:20
3_000_000_000 - 2065-01-24 05:20:00
3_100_000_000 - 2068-03-26 15:06:40
3_200_000_000 - 2071-05-28 00:53:20
3_300_000_000 - 2074-07-28 10:40:00
3_400_000_000 - 2077-09-27 20:26:40
3_500_000_000 - 2080-11-28 06:13:20
3_600_000_000 - 2084-01-29 16:00:00
3_700_000_000 - 2087-04-01 01:46:40
3_800_000_000 - 2090-06-01 11:33:20
3_900_000_000 - 2093-08-01 21:20:00
4_000_000_000 - 2096-10-02 07:06:40
4_100_000_000 - 2099-12-03 16:53:20

Update

Here is a screenshot I took at Unix timestamp 1600000000: twitter.com/susam/status/130512093609862758.

Reproduced as text below:

$ date -u; date; date +%s
Sun Sep 13 12:26:39 UTC 2020
Sun Sep 13 17:56:39 IST 2020
1599999999
$ date -u; date; date +%s
Sun Sep 13 12:26:40 UTC 2020
Sun Sep 13 17:56:40 IST 2020
1600000000

An important point worth noting from the POSIX.1-2008 specification:

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) includes leap seconds. However, in POSIX time (seconds since the Epoch), leap seconds are ignored (not applied) to provide an easy and compatible method of computing time differences. Broken-down POSIX time is therefore not necessarily UTC, despite its appearance.

See § A.4.16 of the POSIX.1-2008 specification for more details.