TimeUnix

class astropy.time.TimeUnix(val1, val2, scale, precision, in_subfmt, out_subfmt, from_jd=False)

Bases: astropy.time.TimeFromEpoch

Unix time: seconds from 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC. For example, 946684800.0 in Unix time is midnight on January 1, 2000.

NOTE: this quantity is not exactly unix time and differs from the strict POSIX definition by up to 1 second on days with a leap second. POSIX unix time actually jumps backward by 1 second at midnight on leap second days while this class value is monotonically increasing at 86400 seconds per UTC day.

Attributes Summary

epoch_format
epoch_scale
epoch_val
epoch_val2
name
unit

Attributes Documentation

epoch_format = u'iso'

epoch_scale = u'utc'

epoch_val = u'1970-01-01 00:00:00'

epoch_val2 = None

name = u'unix'

unit = 1.1574074074074073e-05