Note: The "time" function returns the number of seconds since Jan 1, 1970 except on MacOS, where it returns the seconds since Jan 1, 1904.

Erm, no. Not for any Mac OS anyone's likely to be running this century. 

$ uname ; perl -E 'say time()' ; ssh bloop.local uname \; perl -E "'sa
+y time()'"
Darwin
1719488881
Linux
1719488881

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