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Short explainers for the problems people search before opening a tool.
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Convert Unix timestamps (epoch seconds or milliseconds) to readable UTC and local dates, or convert a date back to an epoch timestamp. Essential for debugging logs, APIs, JWT tokens and database records.
A customer reports a failed payment "around 3pm yesterday". The payment provider's webhook log records only created: 1772636400, and the internal logs are in UTC while the customer is in Casablanca.
Converting the Unix timestamp shows the exact UTC instant and the local equivalent, letting support line the webhook up with the application log entry two seconds later — and prove the failure was a card decline, not an outage.
A Unix timestamp counts seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z. JavaScript's Date works in milliseconds, so a 10-digit value is multiplied by 1000 and a 13-digit value is used as-is — the tool detects the magnitude to avoid the classic 1970-vs-now mistake.
Conversion to a readable date uses toISOString for the unambiguous UTC form and toLocaleString for your device's timezone, so daylight-saving transitions are applied by the browser's IANA timezone database rather than a fixed offset.
Going the other way, a date entered without a timezone is interpreted in local time; appending Z forces UTC. Always store timestamps in UTC and convert only for display.
Timestamp handling compared:
| Tool | How it works | Trade-off |
|---|---|---|
| date CLI | date -d @1772636400 in a terminal. | Flag syntax differs between GNU and BSD/macOS, which trips people up mid-incident. |
| new Date(x) in devtools | Quick conversion in the console. | Easy to forget the ×1000 for seconds and land in January 1970. |
| ToolZone Timestamp Converter | Auto-detects seconds vs milliseconds, shows UTC and local, converts both directions. | Single values, not bulk log conversion. |
The number of seconds (or milliseconds) since January 1, 1970 00:00:00 UTC — the standard way computers store moments in time.
A 10-digit number is seconds; a 13-digit number is milliseconds. We auto-detect based on length.