Get date and time as Unix epoch
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Problem. You want the current date and time as a Unix epoch. That is, roughly speaking, as number of seconds since 01-Jan-1970.
Solution.
DateAndTime now unixTimeSeconds . "=> 1629056092 "
Exercise. Get the same number running the Linux date
command as an external program.
Exercise. Read the method DateAndTime#unitTimeSeconds
.