auto unix_epoch_start = XXX;
auto time = std::chrono::system_clock::now();
auto delta = time - unix_epoc_start;
auto timestamp = std::chrono::duration_cast<std::chrono::milliseconds>(delta).count();

auto unix_timestamp = std::chrono::seconds(std::time(NULL));

int unix_timestamp_x_1000 = std::chrono::milliseconds(unix_timestamp).count();

std::chrono::steady_clock::now() - unix_timestamp;

// 1 Jan 1970 (no time zone)
std::tm c = { 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 70, 0, 0, -1};

// treat it as 1 Jan 1970 (your system's time zone) and get the
// number of seconds since your system's epoch (leap seconds may
// or may not be included)
std::time_t l = std::mktime(&c);

// get a calender time for that time_point in UTC. When interpreted
// as UTC this represents the same calendar date and time as the
// original, but if we change the timezone to the system TZ then it
// represents a time offset from the original calendar time by as
// much as UTC differs from the local timezone.
std::tm m = *std::gmtime(&l);

// Treat the new calendar time as offset time in the local TZ. Get
// the number of seconds since the system epoch (again, leap seconds
// may or may not be counted).
std::time_t n = std::mktime(&m);

l -= (n-l); // subtract the difference

auto now = system_clock::now();
day_point today = time_point_cast<days>(now);
system_clock::time_point this_morning = today;

day_point unix_epoch = day(1)/jan/1970;
days days_since_epoch = today - unix_epoch;

auto s = now - this_morning;

auto tz_offset = hours(0);
int unix_timestamp = (days_since_epoch + s + tz_offset) / seconds(1);