Why are dates calculated from January 1st, 1970 ?

Posted by Vijay Shanker on Stack Overflow See other posts from Stack Overflow or by Vijay Shanker
Published on 2010-03-28T16:18:46Z Indexed on 2010/03/28 17:53 UTC
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Is there any reason behind using date(January 1st, 1970) as standard for time manipulation? I have seen this standard in Java as well as in Python. These two languages I am aware of. Is other popular languages also follows the same standard?

Please describe.

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