If you work with APIs, logs, databases, authentication tokens, or scheduled jobs, you have probably...
If you work with APIs, logs, databases, authentication tokens, or scheduled jobs, you have probably seen numbers like this:
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That number can represent a date and time using a Unix timestamp.
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