The Unix epoch (or Unix time or POSIX time or Unix timestamp) is the number of seconds that have elapsed since January 1, 1970 (midnight UTC/GMT), not counting leap seconds (in ISO 8601: 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z).

With this component, you can easily convert between the usual date and time formats and the epoch format.

Feature List for the Component:

• Get Current Epoch: Returns the current Epoch in seconds
• Datetime to Epoch: Returns the Date and Time (in DateTime format) given the Epoch in seconds
• Epoch to Datetime: Return Epoch in seconds corresponding to the current Date and Time (given in DateTime format)
• Get Current Epoch in Milliseconds: Return the current Epoch in milliseconds
• Datetime to Epoch in Milliseconds: Returns the Date and Time (in DateTime format) given the Epoch in milliseconds
• Epoch in Milliseconds to Datetime: Return Epoch in milliseconds corresponding to the current Date and Time (given in DateTime format)