!!! Overview
[{$pagename}] is defined as the number of [seconds] that have elapsed since 00:00:00 [Coordinated Universal Time] ([UTC]), Thursday, 1 January [1970|Year 1970] not counting [leap seconds].

Interestingly [UTC] did not exist in its current form until [1972|Year 1972].

[{$pagename}] in [ISO 8601] date format is 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z.[1]

[{$pagename}] is a [DateTime] [Epoch]

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* [#1] - [Unix_time|Wikipedia:Unix_time|target='_blank'] - based on information obtained 2017-03-08-