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About TimeTools

Simple for everyone. Powerful for developers.

TimeTools started from a simple frustration: looking up what a Unix timestamp means should take less than two seconds. No searching, no clicking through forms, no waiting. Paste a value, get an answer.

It is designed to be approachable for anyone who just needs a quick answer — the current time around the world, what day of the year it is, how old someone is — while offering deeper workflows for engineers working with logs, databases, APIs, and distributed systems: timeline comparison, timestamp detection inside JSON, JWT inspection, and conversion across every format you are likely to run into.

The goal is to be the time and date tool you keep open all day — useful enough for a backend developer debugging a production incident, and plain enough for anyone who just wants to know what an “epoch” is. It is actively developed, and new tools are added regularly.

How it works

Every tool on this site runs entirely in your browser. There is no conversion server, no account system, and no database on the other end. When you paste a timestamp, your device does all the work and the result appears instantly — because there is nothing to wait for. The output covers every stack — Go, Python, Java, .NET, PHP, JavaScript — so you’re never stuck copy-pasting from a language-specific converter.

We also try to be shareable by default. Most tools encode your input in the URL so you can bookmark a result or send it to a colleague with a single copy-paste of the address bar. Those parameters aren’t used for tracking or analytics — they just make the link work.

Privacy, in plain terms

  • No cookies — none, zero, not even a session cookie.
  • No data is sent to any server. Timestamps, dates, and JWTs you paste are never transmitted.
  • No account, no sign-up, no email required.
  • No advertising or behavioural tracking.
  • Your browser's localStorage is used only to remember your own preferences — hidden rows, pinned tools, theme — and only on your device.

Vercel (our hosting provider) may record standard web-server metadata — IP address, path, and timestamp — in edge logs as part of normal infrastructure operation. We do not access or analyse these logs for user tracking. Full privacy policy →

Linking to TimeTools

Most tools read their input from the page address, so you can build links that open with a result already loaded — handy for bug reports, runbooks, documentation, or sending a colleague exactly what you see. A machine-readable version of this reference lives at /llms.txt.

  • Epoch Converter
    value
    Unix timestamp in seconds, milliseconds, microseconds, or nanoseconds (unit auto-detected), or a date string such as ISO 8601
    https://timetools.dev/?value=1782558101
  • Date → Epoch
    value
    a date or datetime string — ISO 8601, RFC 3339, SQL datetime, or a named-month date like “March 15, 2026”
    https://timetools.dev/date-to-epoch?value=2026-07-02T14%3A00%3A00Z
  • Add Time to Timestamp
    value
    the base Unix timestamp to shift (any unit, auto-detected)
    shift
    signed amount to add, e.g. -90
    unit
    one of seconds, minutes, hours, days
    https://timetools.dev/add-to-timestamp?value=1782558101&shift=-90&unit=minutes
  • Unix Countdown
    t
    target Unix timestamp in seconds
    label
    optional display label for the countdown
    https://timetools.dev/unix-countdown?t=1830297600&label=Launch
  • Compare Timestamps
    t1, t2, …
    one timestamp per row (any supported format)
    l1, l2, …
    optional label for the matching row
    tz
    IANA timezone for the local-time column, e.g. Europe/Warsaw
    https://timetools.dev/compare?t1=1782558101&l1=Alert&t2=1782562100&l2=Resolved&tz=UTC
  • World Clock
    tz
    comma-separated IANA timezones, in display order
    https://timetools.dev/world-clock?tz=UTC,America%2FNew_York,Asia%2FTokyo
  • Timezone Converter
    t
    the timestamp or date string to convert
    tz
    comma-separated IANA timezones to show
    https://timetools.dev/timezone-converter?t=1782558101&tz=UTC,Europe%2FLondon
  • DST Transitions
    tz
    a single IANA timezone
    https://timetools.dev/dst-transitions?tz=America%2FNew_York
  • Cron Expression Parser
    expr
    a URL-encoded cron expression (5 or 6 fields)
    tz
    IANA timezone for the next-run times
    https://timetools.dev/cron?expr=0+9+*+*+1-5&tz=UTC
  • Date Difference
    start
    start date, YYYY-MM-DD
    end
    end date, YYYY-MM-DD
    includeEnd
    set to 1 to count the end date as a full day
    https://timetools.dev/date-difference?start=2026-01-01&end=2026-07-07&includeEnd=1
  • Business Days Counter
    start
    start date, YYYY-MM-DD
    end
    end date, YYYY-MM-DD
    includeEnd
    set to 1 to count the end date as a full day
    https://timetools.dev/business-days?start=2026-01-01&end=2026-07-07&includeEnd=1
  • Add / Subtract Time
    value
    the base date, YYYY-MM-DD
    shift
    signed amount to add, e.g. -30
    unit
    one of days, weeks, months, years
    https://timetools.dev/add-time?value=2026-07-07&shift=30&unit=days
  • ISO 8601 Duration Parser
    value
    an ISO 8601 duration string, e.g. P1DT2H30M
    https://timetools.dev/iso8601-duration?value=P1DT2H30M
  • Seconds to Human
    value
    a number of seconds
    https://timetools.dev/seconds-to-human?value=86400
  • Discord Timestamp
    t
    the target Unix timestamp in seconds
    tz
    IANA timezone the entered wall-clock time belongs to, e.g. America/New_York
    https://timetools.dev/discord-timestamp?t=1782558101&tz=America%2FNew_York
  • .NET Ticks Converter
    value
    a .NET DateTime.Ticks value
    https://timetools.dev/dotnet-ticks?value=638712345678901234
  • FILETIME Converter
    value
    a Windows FILETIME value
    https://timetools.dev/windows-filetime?value=133795932000000000
  • Excel Date Converter
    value
    an Excel date serial number
    https://timetools.dev/excel-date?value=46204.5
  • Cocoa Timestamp Converter
    value
    an Apple Cocoa / Core Foundation timestamp (seconds since 2001-01-01)
    https://timetools.dev/cocoa-timestamp?value=804700800
  • NTP Timestamp Converter
    value
    an NTP timestamp (seconds since 1900-01-01)
    https://timetools.dev/ntp-timestamp?value=3990211200

Free, and staying that way

TimeTools is free to use with no rate limits, paywalls, or ads. If that ever changes, we will say so clearly rather than hiding it behind a terms update.

TimeTools is an independent project, built and maintained by a single software engineer. The goal is the best possible experience for working with time-related data — while staying approachable for anyone. Have an idea or hit a bug? Send feedback →

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