Epoch
Depending on context,
epoch can refer to:
* a distinctive
historical period or
era* a unit of the
geologic time scale, less than a period and greater than an age
* a phase in the
development of the universe with distinctive properties
* an instant of origin chosen as the
epoch (reference date) from which time is measured in a
calendar era or in a computer system.
* an
epoch (astronomy), a moment in time for which celestial coordinates or orbital elements are specified.
* a step in the training process of an
artificial neural network* The
Epoch Game Pocket Computer, an early handheld game console
*
Epoch (Chrono Trigger), a flying time machine in role-playing game
Chrono Trigger*
Epoch (DC Comics), a supervillain also known as the Lord of Time
*
The Epoch Times, a Falun Gong-linked Chinese newspaper
* The
Unix Epoch, 00:00:00 UTC on January 1, 1970.
*
Epoch Javascript Calendar is an
open source,
GPL calendar component for use in web pages written in
JavaScript
