title: Epoch (disambiguation)
text: # Epoch (disambiguation)
  
  An epoch is an instant in time chosen as the origin of a particular calendar era.
  
  Epoch or EPOCH may also refer to:
  
  ## Time-related
  
  * Any historical era
  * Epoch (astronomy), a moment in time used as a reference for the orbital elements of a celestial body
  * Epoch (computing), a moment from which system time is usually measured
  * Epoch (cosmology) or cosmologic epoch, a phase in the development of the universe since the Big Bang
  * Epoch, a span of time on the geologic time scale smaller than a period and larger than an age
  * Epoch (race), racial periods in Blavatsky's esoteric theory of the root races
  * Unix epoch, the starting time for Unix-based operating systems
  
  ## Arts and entertainment
  
  * Epoch (DC Comics), a supervillain also known as the Lord of Time
  * Epoch (Marvel Comics), a cosmic entity in the Marvel Comics universe
  * Epoch (film), a 2001 American science fiction film
  * Epoch (anthology), a 1975 anthology of science fiction stories
  * Epoch (video game), a 1981 space combat game for the Apple II
  * Epoch (The Brave album), 2016
  * Epoch (Tycho album), 2016
  * Epoch, a 2006 album by Rip Slyme
  
  ## Games
  
  * Epoch Co., a Japanese toy and computer games company
     * Epoch Game Pocket Computer, an early hand-held game console produced by Epoch Co.
  * Epoch (Chrono Trigger), a flying time machine in role-playing game Chrono Trigger
  * Epoch Hunter, a boss in Caverns of Time from the game World of Warcraft
  
  ## Publications
  
  * Epoch (American magazine), literary magazine of Cornell University
  * Epoch (Russian magazine), literary magazine by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and his brother Mikhail
  * Ha-Tsfira (lit. Epoch), a Hebrew language newspaper published in 1862 and 1874–1931
  * The Epoch Times, a privately owned Falun Gong-linked newspaper
  
  ## Science and technology
  
  * EPOCH (chemotherapy), a chemotherapy regimen
  * EPOCh (Extrasolar Planet Observation and Characterization), a NASA mission associated with EPOXI
  
  ## Weapons
  
  * Epoch Remote Control Turret
  