Accoding to Wikipedia, the Big Bang happened about 13.8 billion years ago.
The (approximate) number of seconds in a year = 3600 x 24 x 365 = 31,536,000
So
(13.8 x 109) x (3.1536 x 107) = 435196800000000000 ≈ 4.351968 x 1017 seconds ago
(Of course......a few more seconds have elasped as I've been writing all of this....minor adjustments may be necessary.....)
