Everything tagged Timestamps.
Unix timestamps explained — seconds since the 1970 epoch, seconds vs milliseconds, the Year 2038 problem, negative timestamps and code examples.
AZ Utils Editorial · · 12 min read
Unix time vs UTC explained — why they are different kinds of thing, how they relate, the leap-second nuance and how time zones fit in.
AZ Utils Editorial · · 11 min read
A practical guide to converting timestamps in both directions — in JavaScript, Python, SQL, the command line and spreadsheets, with the unit and time-zone gotchas.
AZ Utils Editorial · · 11 min read
A complete epoch time guide — what an epoch is, the Unix epoch and the others (NTP, GPS, Windows, Apple), precision from seconds to nanoseconds and how to convert.
AZ Utils Editorial · · 11 min read
A symptom-driven guide to debugging timestamps — seconds/ms mix-ups, time-zone and DST errors, the 1970 and 1901 dates, and a systematic method to fix them.
AZ Utils Editorial · · 11 min read
