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Discover how computers perceive time. Explore UTC time, the global standard, and the Unix timestamp, a computer's unique way of telling time. Get ready to dive into the fundamentals of time in the digital realm!
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Hi, I'm Rachel,
a Python teacher here at Treehouse.
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If you're a programmer,
you're going to have to deal with dates or
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times eventually, and sometimes,
even at the same time.
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Now, computers think about time a little
differently than we do as humans, so
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it's our job as programmers to have
an understanding of that before we start
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creating programs that deal with date or
time.
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There are two main methods that
computers use to keep time.
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