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Unix Timestamp Converter — Epoch to Date and Back

Convert Unix timestamps to dates and back, with timezone-aware conversion, batch mode and code snippets.

Convert between Unix timestamps and human-readable dates with automatic unit detection, correct timezone and DST handling, batch conversion and ready-to-use code snippets. Everything runs in your browser — nothing is uploaded.

Live clock

Seconds

—

Milliseconds

—

Date to timestamp

Timezone compare

UTC

— GMT

Code snippets

Current timestamp
const nowSeconds = Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000);
Timestamp → date (using current time)
const date = new Date(0 * 1000);
date.toISOString(); // 1970-01-01T00:00:00.000Z

About Unix Timestamp Converter

A Unix timestamp is just a number, and reading it back as a date takes either a script or a tool like this one. This converter detects whether you pasted seconds, milliseconds, microseconds or nanoseconds from the digit count, shows the result in UTC, your local timezone, ISO 8601, RFC 2822 and more, and handles the awkward edges most converters skip: the Year 2038 problem, daylight saving time gaps and ambiguous local times, and ISO week numbers at year boundaries. It also converts a date back to a timestamp in any IANA timezone, compares several timezones side by side, and can process a batch of timestamps at once.

Features

Live clock

Current Unix time in seconds and milliseconds, ticking every second with pause/resume.

Timezone aware

Convert dates in any IANA timezone, with correct DST gap and ambiguity handling.

Auto unit detection

Paste a timestamp in seconds, milliseconds, microseconds or nanoseconds — the unit is detected automatically.

Code snippets

Copy-ready snippets in 12 languages and SQL dialects for the current timestamp.

Private share links

Copy a link that carries your timestamp, unit and timezone in the URL hash.

Batch conversion

Paste up to 5,000 timestamps or dates at once and export the results as CSV.

How to use Unix Timestamp Converter

  1. 1

    Paste a timestamp

    Enter a Unix timestamp in seconds, milliseconds, microseconds or nanoseconds — the unit is detected from the digit count.

  2. 2

    Read the converted date

    See the result in UTC, your local timezone, ISO 8601, RFC 2822, relative time and more.

  3. 3

    Or convert the other way

    Pick a date, time and IANA timezone in the Date to timestamp panel to get the Unix timestamp for that instant.

  4. 4

    Compare timezones

    Pin several timezones to see the same instant across all of them at once.

  5. 5

    Grab a code snippet

    Copy a ready-to-use snippet for the current timestamp in JavaScript, Python, Go and nine other languages.

Use cases

  • Debugging an API response that returns a raw Unix timestamp
  • Converting a date a user entered into the exact instant it represents in their timezone
  • Checking whether a system is affected by the Year 2038 problem
  • Comparing a meeting time across several timezones at once
  • Converting a batch of log timestamps into readable dates for a report

Privacy

All parsing and conversion happens in JavaScript in this browser tab. No timestamp or date you enter is sent to Art of Code or anyone else.

Frequently asked questions

A Unix timestamp (also called epoch time) is the number of seconds that have passed since 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970, not counting leap seconds. It is a single number that unambiguously identifies a moment in time, independent of timezone.
Count the digits. A timestamp in seconds for a date around now has 10 digits, milliseconds has 13, microseconds has 16, and nanoseconds has 19. This tool detects the unit automatically from the digit count, and you can always override it if the guess is wrong.
Systems that store a Unix timestamp as a signed 32-bit integer can only count up to 2,147,483,647 seconds, which is 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038. After that the value overflows and wraps around to a negative number, which some older software or hardware still misreads as a date in 1901.
No. A Unix timestamp always counts seconds since the epoch in UTC, so it refers to the same instant everywhere in the world. Timezone only matters when you convert that instant into a human-readable date, which is why this tool asks which timezone to display or interpret dates in.
Yes. Negative Unix timestamps represent moments before 1 January 1970. For example, -86400 is 31 December 1969 at 00:00:00 UTC, exactly one day before the epoch.

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