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Life & fun · December 16, 2016

An easier way to create and parse Unix Timestamps

Easier way to create and parse Unix Timestamps.

An easier way to create and parse Unix Timestamps launched on December 16, 2016 with 8 votes, #1,650 of 3,449 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.

What it does

Unix Timestamp , also known as Unix Time, or Epoch Time, is the representation of time instants as the number of seconds passed since January 1, 1970 (UTC). It's often preferred as a time storage format because of its timezone-independent nature. An integer representation, however, makes it cumbersome to query on the data type. This is a small application to address that problem. It makes it easier to parse and create Unix timestamps and see their equivalent dates in differentfrom stuff.shubhamjain.co

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