Epoch & Unix Timestamp Conversion Tools

The current Unix epoch time is

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Convert epoch to human readable date and vice versa

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Timestamp to Human date

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Human date to Timestamp

Human date to Timestamp

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Input format: RFC 2822, D-M-Y, M/D/Y, Y-M-D, etc. Add 'GMT' to convert to GMT.

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Epoch dates for the start and end of the year/month/day

Show start & end of Mon
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year y

month m

day d

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Yr /
2012 GMT

Convert

[Epoch List By Month & Year]

Convert seconds to days, hours and minutes

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Seconds to days, hours, minutes

Calculate the difference between 2 dates

What is epoch time?

The Unix epoch (or Unix time or POSIX time or Unix timestamp) is the number of seconds that have elapsed since January 1, 1970 (midnight UTC/GMT), not counting leap seconds (in ISO 8601: 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z). Literally speaking the epoch is Unix time 0 (midnight 1/1/1970), but 'epoch' is often used as a synonym for 'Unix time'. Many Unix systems store epoch dates as a signed 32-bit integer, which might cause problems on January 19, 2038 (known as the Year 2038 problem or Y2038). Human readable time 1 hour 1 day 1 week 1 month (30.44 days) 1 year (365.24 days) Seconds 3600 seconds 86400 seconds 604800 seconds 2629743 seconds 31556926 seconds

How to get the current epoch time in ...

PHP

time() more ...

Python import time first, then time.time() Ruby Perl Java C#

Time.now (or Time.new ). To display the epoch: Time.now.to_i time more ... long epoch = System.currentTimeMillis()/1000; var epoch = (DateTime.UtcNow - new DateTime(1970, 1, 1)).TotalSeconds;

Objecti [[NSDate date] timeIntervalSince1970]; (returns double) or NSString

ve-C

*currentTimestamp = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%f", [[NSDate date] timeIntervalSince1970]];

C++11

double now = std::chrono::duration_cast<std::chrono::milliseconds>(std::chro no::system_clock::now().time_since_epoch()).count();

VBScri pt/ASP AutoIT Delphi R Erlang

DateDiff("s", "01/01/1970 00:00:00", Now())

_DateDiff('s', "1970/01/01 00:00:00", _NowCalc()) Epoch := DateTimetoUnix(Now); Tested in Delphi 2010. as.numeric(Sys.time()) calendar:datetime_to_gregorian_seconds(calendar:universal_time( ))-719528*24*3600.

MySQL Postgr eSQL SQLite Oracle

SELECT unix_timestamp(now()) more ... SELECT extract(epoch FROM now());

SELECT strftime('%s', 'now'); SELECT (SYSDATE - TO_DATE('01/01/1970 00:00:00', 'MM-DD-YYYY 24 * 60 * 60 FROM DUAL

PL/SQL HH24:MI:SS')) *

SQL Server JavaSc ript Visual

SELECT DATEDIFF(s, '1970-01-01 00:00:00', GETUTCDATE())

Math.round(new Date().getTime()/1000.0) getTime() returns time in

milliseconds.

DATETIME() - {^1970/01/01 00:00:00} Warning: time zones not handled

FoxPro correctly Adobe ColdFu sion Tcl/Tk

<cfset epochTime = left(getTickcount(), 10)>

clock seconds

Unix/Li date +%s nux Shell Power Shell Other OS's Command line: perl -e "print time" (If Perl is installed on your system)

get-date (get-date).touniversaltime() -uformat "%s"

Convert from human readable date to epoch

PHP

strtotime("15 November 2012") (converts most English date

texts) or:

date_create('01/15/2010')->format('U') (PHP5 DateTime

class) more ... Python

import time first, then int(time.mktime(time.strptime('2000-01-01 12:34:00', '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'))) - time.timezone

Ruby

Time.local(year, month, day, hour, minute, second, usec ) (or Time.gm for GMT/UTC input). To display add .to_i

Perl Java

Use the Perl Epoch routines

long epoch = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss").parse("01/01/1970 01:00:00").getTime() / 1000;

VBScript/ASP AutoIT

DateDiff("s", "01/01/1970 00:00:00", time field) _DateDiff('s', "1970/01/01 00:00:00", "YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS")

Delphi C R

Epoch := DateTimeToUnix(StrToDateTime(myString));
Use the C Epoch Converter routines

as.numeric(as.POSIXct("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss", origin="1970-01-01"))

MySQL

SELECT unix_timestamp(time) Time format: YYYY-MM-DD

HH:MM:SS or YYMMDD or YYYYMMDD More on using Epoch timestamps with MySQL

PostgreSQL

SELECT extract(epoch FROM date('2000-01-01 12:34'));

With timestamp: SELECT EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM TIMESTAMP WITH

TIME ZONE '2001-02-16 20:38:40-08');

With interval: SELECT EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM INTERVAL '5 days 3

hours');
SQLite SQL Server JavaScript

SELECT strftime('%s',timestring); SELECT DATEDIFF(s, '1970-01-01 00:00:00', time field)

Use the JavaScript Date object

Unix/Linux Shell date +%s -d"Jan 1, 1980 00:00:01" Replace '-d' with '-ud' to input in GMT/UTC time.

Convert from epoch to human readable date

PHP

date(output format, epoch); Output format example: 'r' = RFC 2822 date
more ...

Python

import time first, then time.strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S

+0000", time.localtime(epoch)) Replace time.localtime with

time.gmtime for GMT time. Ruby Perl Java

Time.at(epoch)
Use the Perl Epoch routines

String date = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss").format(new java.util.Date (epoch*1000));

VBScript/ DateAdd("s", epoch, "01/01/1970 00:00:00") ASP AutoIT Delphi

_DateAdd("s", $EpochSeconds , "1970/01/01 00:00:00") myString := DateTimeToStr(UnixToDateTime(Epoch)); Where Epoch is

a signed integer.

Use the C Epoch Converter routines

Objective NSDate * myDate = [NSDate -C R MySQL

dateWithTimeIntervalSince1970:epoch]; NSLog(@"%@", date); as.POSIXct(epoch, origin="1970-01-01", tz="GMT") FROM_UNIXTIME(epoch, optional output format) Default output format
is YYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS. If you need support for negative timestamps:

DATE_FORMAT(DATE_ADD(FROM_UNIXTIME(0), interval -315619200 second),"%Y-%m-%d") (replace -315619200 with epoch) more ...
PostgreS QL PostgreSQL version 8.1 and higher: SELECT to_timestamp(epoch); versions: SELECT TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE 'epoch' + epoch * Older

INTERVAL '1 second';

SQLite

SELECT datetime(epoch_to_convert, 'unixepoch'); or local timezone: SELECT datetime(epoch_to_convert, 'unixepoch', 'localtime');

Oracle PL/SQL

SELECT to_date('01-JAN-1970','dd-monyyyy')+(1326357743/60/60/24) from dual

Replace 1326357743 with epoch.

SQL Server

DATEADD(s, epoch, '1970-01-01 00:00:00')

Microsoft =(A1 / 86400) + 25569 Format the result cell for date/time, the result will Excel be in GMT time (A1 is the cell with the epoch number). For other time zones: =((A1 +/- time zone adjustment) / 86400) + 25569. Crystal Reports

DateAdd("s", {EpochTimeStampField}-14400, #1/1/1970 00:00:00#) -14400 used for Eastern Standard Time. See Time Zones.

JavaScrip Use the JavaScript Date object t Tcl/Tk Unix/Lin

clock format 1325376000 date -d @1190000000 Replace 1190000000 with your epoch, needs recent

ux Shell PowerSh ell

version of 'date'. Replace '-d' with '-ud' for GMT/UTC time.

Function get-epochDate ($epochDate) { [timezone]::CurrentTimeZone.ToLocalTime(([datetime]'1/1/1970' ).AddSeconds($epochDate)) } , then use: get-epochDate 1279152364 .

Works for Windows PowerShell v1 and v2

Other OS's

Command line: perl -e "print scalar(localtime(epoch))" (If Perl is installed) Replace 'localtime' with 'gmtime' for GMT/UTC time.

Thanks to everyone who sent me corrections and updates!