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Unix Timestamp Converter
Unix timestamps and dates, both ways, with code samples for each language
The current Unix timestamp is:
Note: this reads the clock on your own machine. If your computer’s clock is wrong, the timestamp you get here is wrong too.
Date and time → Unix timestamp
Note: the date fields are read as China Standard Time (CST), not UTC — mind the 8-hour offset.
Unix timestamp → Date and time
Getting the Unix timestamp
| Java | System.currentTimeMillis() / 1000L |
| JavaScript | Math.round(new Date().getTime() / 1000)getTime() returns milliseconds |
| C# / .NET | (DateTime.Now.ToUniversalTime().Ticks - 621355968000000000) / 10000000 |
| MySQL | SELECT unix_timestamp(now()) |
| PHP | time() |
| Python | import time; time.time() |
| Go | import time; int32(time.Now().Unix()) |
| Ruby | Time.now.to_i |
| PostgreSQL | SELECT extract(epoch FROM now()) |
| SQL Server | SELECT DATEDIFF(s, '1970-01-01 00:00:00', GETUTCDATE()) |
| Perl | time |
| Unix / Linux | date +%s |
| VBScript / ASP | DateDiff("s", "01/01/1970 00:00:00", Now()) |
Unix timestamp → date and time
| Java | new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss").format(new java.util.Date(timestamp * 1000)) |
| JavaScript | new Date(timestamp * 1000).toLocaleString() |
| Linux | date -d @timestamp |
| MySQL | from_unixtime(timestamp) |
| PHP | date('r', timestamp) |
| Python | import time; time.gmtime(timestamp) |
| Ruby | Time.at(timestamp) |
| PostgreSQL | SELECT TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE 'epoch' + timestamp * INTERVAL '1 second' |
| SQL Server | DATEADD(s, timestamp, '1970-01-01 00:00:00') |
| VBScript / ASP | DateAdd("s", timestamp, "01/01/1970 00:00:00") |
| Perl | my ($sec,$min,$hour,$day,$month,$year) = (localtime($time))[0,1,2,3,4,5,6] |
Date and time → Unix timestamp
| Java | new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss").parse("01/01/1970 01:00:00").getTime() / 1000 |
| JavaScript | new Date(Date.UTC(year, month - 1, day, hour, minute, second)) / 1000 |
| MySQL | SELECT unix_timestamp(time)Format: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS |
| PHP | mktime(hour, minute, second, month, day, year) |
| Python | import time; int(time.mktime(time.strptime('YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS', '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'))) |
| Ruby | Time.local(year, month, day, hour, minute, second) |
| PostgreSQL | SELECT extract(epoch FROM date('YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS')) |
| SQL Server | SELECT DATEDIFF(s, '1970-01-01 00:00:00', time) |
| Unix / Linux | date +%s -d"Jan 1, 1970 00:00:01" |
| VBScript / ASP | DateDiff("s", "01/01/1970 00:00:00", time) |
| Perl | use Time::Local; timelocal($sec, $min, $hour, $day, $month, $year) |