Unix Timestamp Converter

By Seagit ✨

Convert Unix timestamps to dates and dates to timestamps. Epoch time converter supporting seconds, milliseconds, UTC, and ISO 8601 formats.

Current Unix Time

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Updates every second. This is the current Unix timestamp (seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z UTC).

Unix Timestamp → Date

Values ≥ 1012 are treated as milliseconds; smaller values as seconds.

Date → Unix Timestamp

⏱️ Unix Timestamp Converter — Free Online Tool

Convert Unix epoch timestamps to dates online, free. A Unix timestamp (epoch time) is the number of seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC — the time representation used across databases, logs, APIs, and programming languages. This converter turns a Unix timestamp into a human-readable date (and back), handling both seconds and milliseconds, entirely in your browser.

🚀 Why use this Unix Timestamp Converter tool?

It converts both ways — timestamp to date and date to timestamp — and auto-detects seconds vs milliseconds, so you don't misread a value by a factor of 1000. 100% free, no registration, and complete privacy — everything runs locally in your browser, so your data never touches a server.

Key Features

🔁Both directions

Convert a Unix timestamp to a readable date, or a date to a Unix timestamp.

🎯Seconds & milliseconds

Handles 10-digit (seconds) and 13-digit (milliseconds) timestamps so JS Date.now() values work too.

🌍UTC & local

Shows the result in both UTC and your local time zone to avoid off-by-hours mistakes.

🔒100% private

Conversion runs locally; nothing is uploaded, logged, or stored.

Popular Use Cases

Debugging

  • Read a timestamp from a log
  • Check a token's exp/iat
  • Inspect API date fields

Development

  • Build a date for a query
  • Verify a stored epoch value
  • Convert between units

Data

  • Decode exported timestamps
  • Align events across systems
  • Sanity-check a date

What It Handles

Converts

  • Timestamp → date
  • Date → timestamp
  • Seconds & ms

Shows

  • UTC time
  • Local time
  • ISO 8601

Privacy

  • Client-side only
  • No network calls
  • Runs offline

Sources & References

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a Unix timestamp?

A Unix timestamp is the number of seconds elapsed since the Unix epoch — 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970. It's a compact, time-zone-independent way to store an instant in time, used widely in programming, databases, and APIs.

Is the timestamp in seconds or milliseconds?

Both are common: classic Unix time is in seconds (a 10-digit number around 1.7 billion today), while JavaScript's Date.now() returns milliseconds (13 digits). This tool detects the magnitude so you don't misread a value by 1000×.

Why is the date I get in UTC, not my time zone?

A Unix timestamp encodes an instant in UTC with no time-zone offset. This converter shows both the UTC date and your local equivalent so you can use whichever you need.

What is the Year 2038 problem?

Systems that store Unix time in a signed 32-bit integer overflow on 19 January 2038, wrapping to a negative number. Modern systems use 64-bit timestamps, which avoid the issue for billions of years.

Is my data uploaded anywhere?

No. The conversion runs entirely in your browser — nothing is sent to a server.

🎓 Pro Tips

  • Tip 1: Count the digits: ~10 = seconds, ~13 = milliseconds. Divide a 13-digit value by 1000 to get seconds.
  • Tip 2: Store timestamps in UTC and convert to local time only for display — it avoids time-zone bugs.
  • Tip 3: JWT exp/iat claims are Unix seconds; paste them here to see when a token was issued or expires.