Epoch Time Converter

Convert between Unix timestamps and human-readable dates with precision and ease

Enter Epoch Timestamp

Example: 1609459200 (January 1, 2021)
Common timestamps:

Conversion Result

Local Time
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UTC Time
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ISO 8601
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RFC 2822
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Relative Time
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About Epoch Time

Epoch time (also known as Unix time or POSIX time) is a system for representing a point in time as the number of seconds that have elapsed since 00:00:00 UTC on Thursday, 1 January 1970, minus leap seconds.

Common Use Cases

  • • Storing timestamps in databases
  • • Comparing dates in programming
  • • Working with APIs that use Unix time
  • • Calculating time differences

Notable Timestamps

  • • 0 - Jan 1, 1970 (Unix Epoch)
  • • 1000000000 - Sept 9, 2001
  • • 1500000000 - July 14, 2017
  • • 2147483647 - Year 2038 Problem (32-bit overflow)

Units of Measurement

  • • Seconds - Standard Unix timestamp (10 digits for current dates)
  • • Milliseconds - Used by JavaScript Date.now() (13 digits)
  • • Microseconds - Higher precision timestamps (16 digits)

Developer Resources:

JavaScript

// Get current Unix timestamp in seconds
const epochSeconds = Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000);

// Get Unix timestamp in milliseconds
const epochMilliseconds = Date.now();

// Create Date from Unix timestamp
const date = new Date(epochSeconds * 1000);

Python

import time
from datetime import datetime

# Get current Unix timestamp in seconds
epoch_seconds = int(time.time())

# Create datetime from Unix timestamp
date = datetime.fromtimestamp(epoch_seconds)