/*
That is correct. # of seconds since 1/1/1970.
*/
Number of seconds since 1/1/1970 00:00:00 GMT.
In perl, for example, we have a very simple line to convert Unix Timestamp
into human-readable format:
$ perl -e "print scalar localtime(0);"
Wed Dec 31 21:00:00 1969
As I told, this is GMT based. So, here in Brazil we have GMT-3, then that's
correct.
CheerS