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• era, the: Syn. {epoch}. Webster's Unabridged makes these words almost synonymous, but `era' usually connotes a span of time rather than a point in time.
  The {epoch} usage is recommended. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• epoch n. [Unix: prob. from astronomical timekeeping] The time and date corresponding to 0 in an operating system's clock and timestamp values.
  Under most Unix versions the epoch is 00:00:00 GMT, January 1, 1970...
• ince time T equals minus infinity adv. A long time ago
  for as long as anyone can remember; at the time that some particular frob was first designed....
• epoch: [UNIX: prob. from astronomical timekeeping] n.
  The time and date corresponding to 0 in an operating system's clock and timestamp values....
• A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.
  -- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) -- Miscellaneous Maxims and Opinions (1879)...
• UNIX was half a billion (500000000) seconds old on Tue Nov 5 00
  53:20 1985 GMT (measuring since the time(2) epoch). -- Andy Tannenbaum...
• UNIX will be half a billion (500000000) seconds old on Tue Nov 5 00
  53:20 1985 GMT (measuring since the time(2) epoch). -- Andy Tannenbaum...
• ince time T equals minus infinity: adv. A long time ago
  for as long as anyone can remember; at the time that some particular frob was first designed....