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Unix Timestamp Converter
Convert Unix timestamps (seconds, milliseconds, micro or nanoseconds) to readable dates in any time zone, and dates back to timestamps. Live current epoch time, ISO 8601 and RFC 2822.
📚 Official sources: MDN Date
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Questions people ask
What is a Unix timestamp?+
The number of seconds since 1 January 1970 at 00:00:00 UTC (the Unix epoch). It's the same everywhere in the world, so it's the standard way to store time in databases and APIs.
Seconds or milliseconds?+
Unix tools, PHP and most APIs use seconds (10 digits today). JavaScript's Date.now() and Java use milliseconds (13 digits). This converter detects which one you pasted by the number of digits.
What happens in 2038?+
Systems that store Unix time in a signed 32-bit number overflow on 19 January 2038 at 03:14:07 UTC (timestamp 2147483647). Modern 64-bit systems are not affected.