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Unix Timestamp Converter

Category: Time Complexity: Low Usage: Medium

Convert between Unix timestamps and human-readable dates

Timestamp to Date

Date to Timestamp

Common Timestamps

About Unix Timestamps

A Unix timestamp (also known as Epoch time, POSIX time, or Seconds since Epoch) is the number of seconds that have elapsed since January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 UTC. It's widely used in computing for representing points in time.

  • • Also called POSIX time or Epoch time
  • • Timezone-independent representation of time
  • • Commonly used in databases, APIs, and logs
  • • 32-bit systems overflow on January 19, 2038
  • • Modern systems use 64-bit timestamps