What date is that timestamp?
Type a timestamp to read it as a date, or type a date to get the timestamp. Both boxes drive each other — there is no button to press.
Questions people actually ask
- What is a Unix timestamp?
- The number of seconds since the first moment of 1970, in UTC. It is how computers store a moment in time, because one number needs no time zone and no calendar.
- Seconds or milliseconds?
- It works it out from the length and says which it used. Ten digits is seconds, thirteen is milliseconds — and the tool tells you, because guessing wrong is off by a factor of a thousand.
- Can it handle dates before 1970?
- Yes. Those timestamps are negative, and a leading minus is read rather than refused.
- What about the year 2038 problem?
- That is a limit of 32-bit counters, not of this page. Timestamps past 2038 read correctly here.