Return the time in seconds since the epoch as a floating point number.
Note that even though the time is always returned as a floating point
number, not all systems provide time with a better precision than 1
second. While this function normally returns non-decreasing values, it
can return a lower value than a previous call if the system clock has
been set back between the two calls.
维基百科上说的是“Unix epoch”:The Unix epoch is the time 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970 (or 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z ISO 8601).
它还在继续There is a problem with this definition, in that UTC did not exist in its current form until 1972; this issue is discussed below. For brevity, the remainder of this section uses ISO 8601 date format, in which the Unix epoch is 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z.
时间和日期很有趣。
鲜为人知的事实:1894年以前瑞士的时区是34:08(34分8秒)。1894年6月之后,更新到29:44。(link)