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CURDATE() or CURRENT DATE CURTIME() or CURRENT TIME GETDATE() or GETUTCDATE() NOW() or CURRENT TIMESTAMP SYSDATE() 3 ms 1 January 1753 to 31 December 9999 (*) 60 s 1 January 1900 to 6 June 2079 Standard ML: Time.now() 1 μs (*) 1 January 1970 (*) TCL [clock seconds] 1 s 1 January 1970 [clock milliseconds] 1 ms [clock microseconds] 1 μs [clock ...
Using a signed 64-bit value introduces a new wraparound date that is over twenty times greater than the estimated age of the universe: approximately 292 billion years from now. [11] The ability to make computations on dates is limited by the fact that tm_year uses a signed 32-bit integer value starting at 1900 for the year. This limits the year ...
Software timekeeping systems vary widely in the resolution of time measurement; some systems may use time units as large as a day, while others may use nanoseconds.For example, for an epoch date of midnight UTC (00:00) on 1 January 1900, and a time unit of a second, the time of the midnight (24:00) between 1 January 1900 and 2 January 1900 is represented by the number 86400, the number of ...
On 5 January 1975, the 12-bit field that had been used for dates in the TOPS-10 operating system for DEC PDP-10 computers overflowed, in a bug known as "DATE75". The field value was calculated by taking the number of years since 1964, multiplying by 12, adding the number of months since January, multiplying by 31, and adding the number of days since the start of the month; putting 2 12 − 1 ...
The term "timestamp" derives from rubber stamps used in offices to stamp the current date, and sometimes time, in ink on paper documents, to record when the document was received. Common examples of this type of timestamp are a postmark on a letter or the "in" and "out" times on a time card .
A signed 32-bit value covers about 68 years before and after the 1970-01-01 epoch. The minimum representable date is Friday 1901-12-13, and the maximum representable date is Tuesday 2038-01-19. One second after 2038-01-19T03:14:07Z this representation will overflow in what is known as the year 2038 problem.
This calendar denotes "lunar years" as Anno Hegiræ ([since] the year of the Hijra) or AH. This calendar is used in Sunni Islam and related sects. The epoch of the official Iranian calendar is also the Hijra, but it is a solar calendar; each year begins at the Northern spring equinox. This calendar is used in Shia Islam and related sects.
The Lamport timestamp algorithm is a simple logical clock algorithm used to determine the order of events in a distributed computer system. As different nodes or processes will typically not be perfectly synchronized, this algorithm is used to provide a partial ordering of events with minimal overhead, and conceptually provide a starting point ...