Unix Time to Date Converter – Convert Unix Online (Free Tool)
Free online Unix Time to Date Converter tool to convert epoch timestamps to human-readable dates. Transform Unix timestamps to datetime format. All conversion happens locally.
Example Output
Same instant in three commonly-needed formats.
ISO: 2025-01-01T00:00:00.000Z — UTC: Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT — relative: 5 months ago
What is Unix Time to Date Converter?
Unix Time to Date converts seconds-since-epoch into human-readable dates. Auto-detects whether your value is in seconds (10 digits) or milliseconds (13 digits) so you don't have to remember the order of magnitude. Useful when reading logs, debugging timestamps stored in databases, or translating API responses.
Why use this tool?
- Works on desktop, tablet, and mobile in any modern browser
- Stable behavior across visits — no surprise version drift
- Your data stays private — all processing happens locally in the browser
- Strict and lenient parser modes for handling messy real-world data
- Handles UTF-8 BOM, mixed delimiters, and other edge cases that break simpler converters
How to use
- Paste a Unix timestamp (10-digit seconds or 13-digit milliseconds — auto-detected)
- Read the date in ISO 8601, UTC, local timezone, and relative ("3 hours ago") forms
- Copy the format that matches your downstream use
Examples
Decode a log timestamp
1735689600 → 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z. The 10-digit format is standard for Unix logs.
JavaScript Date.now() output
1735689600000 (13 digits) → same instant. JS uses milliseconds; many backends use seconds.
Common use cases
- Reading timestamps from server logs and databases
- Inspecting JWT exp/iat/nbf claims
- Debugging cache TTLs and expiry calculations
- Translating API response timestamps for analytics
Troubleshooting
- Result is far in the future or past.
- The value might be in microseconds or nanoseconds. 16+ digits — divide by 1000 (μs) or 1,000,000 (ns) before pasting.
Frequently Asked Questions
Unix time is the number of seconds that have elapsed since January 1, 1970 (UTC), not counting leap seconds. It is also called epoch time or POSIX time.
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