I created an empty time point that represents epoch time:



what date does it represent? what is the local_t pseudo clock epoch?

Regards,
Juan

it does not know its time zone. It knows its 10 am, or whatever, but not with respect to GMT or whatnot. That is, its basically what you get if you look at your clock on the window's bar ... it has the date and time, but no context info (the PC knows your timezone or what you told it was its timezone, but its not shown there).

Internally, tse stores a duration since the Unix epoch.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/67829617
https://howardhinnant.github.io/date/tz.html#loc_vs_sys