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Convert milliseconds Date-Time Milliseconds since Epoch · Julian Date · HTTP format · ISO 8601 · Convert local YYYY / MM / D
Calendar GPS time
Epochs & standards for reference. Convert date / time formats on the fly.
Timestamps in milliseconds and other units.

to UTC time & date: and HH : MM : SS

Tutorials System.currentTimeMillis() · What is a Unix Timestamp ·
What is UTC
Timezones, Unix timestamps in milliseconds & UTC. Java programming examples and explanations.

to local time & date: to milliseconds since epoch

Sync Service Minutes since Epoch
Free synchronization web service. 3rd party time authority.
Used in games, trial software, internet capable controllers, etc.

UNIX Standards Client-Centric Time · Persistence of Time UNIX

Software engineering standards for time-keeping.
Architectural specifications developed for 3rd party reference and compliance.

How to get the current time in milliseconds

Methods to get the time in milliseconds
since the UNIX epoch (January 1, 1970 00:00:00 UTC) in various programming languages

ActionScript (new Date()).time

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 Bash date +%s%N | cut -b1-13

std::chrono::duration_cast<std::chrono::milliseconds>
C++
(std::chrono::system_clock::now().time_since_epoch()).count()

C#.NET DateTimeOffset.UtcNow.ToUnixTimeMilliseconds()

Clojure (System/currentTimeMillis)

Dart DateTime.now().millisecondsSinceEpoch

Erlang erlang:system_time(millisecond)

Excel / = (NOW() - CELL_WITH_TIMEZONE_OFFSET_IN_HOURS/24 - DATE(1970,1,1)) *

Google Sheets* 86400000

Go / Golang time.Now().UnixMilli()

Hive* unix_timestamp() * 1000

Java / Groovy /
System.currentTimeMillis()
Kotlin

Javascript Date.now() // or: new Date().getTime()

MySQL* UNIX_TIMESTAMP() * 1000

Objective-C (long long)([[NSDate date] timeIntervalSince1970] * 1000.0)

OCaml (1000.0 *. Unix.gettimeofday ())

SELECT (SYSDATE-CAST(TO_TIMESTAMP_TZ('01-01-1970 00:00:00+00:00',

Oracle
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DUAL
 Perl use Time::HiRes qw(gettimeofday); print gettimeofday;

PHP round(microtime(true) * 1000)

PostgreSQL extract(epoch FROM now()) * 1000

PowerShell [DateTimeOffset]::UtcNow.ToUnixTimeMilliseconds()

Python int(round(time.time() * 1000))

Qt QDateTime::currentMSecsSinceEpoch()

R* as.numeric(Sys.time()) * 1000

Ruby (Time.now.to_f * 1000).floor

Rust std::time::SystemTime::now().duration_since(UNIX_EPOCH).expect("error")

Scala val timestamp: Long = System.currentTimeMillis

SELECT DATEDIFF_BIG(MILLISECOND,'1970-01-01 00:00:00.000',

SQL Server
SYSUTCDATETIME())

SQLite* STRFTIME('%s', 'now') * 1000

Swift* let currentTime = NSDate().timeIntervalSince1970 * 1000

offsetInMillis = 60000 * GetTimeZoneOffset()

VBScript / ASP WScript.Echo DateDiff("s", "01/01/1970 00:00:00", Now()) * 1000 -
offsetInMillis + Timer * 1000 mod 1000

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 Suggest languages / frameworks / APIs for getting the UNIX time in milliseconds here

CockroachDB select extract(epoch_nanoseconds from now()) / 1000000

* starred examples might not reach millisecond accuracy but the value is multiplied to reach millisecond range

Time & Space

Scientific facts as well as controversies surrounding time keeping

Abbreviation
Millis is the popular abbreviation for milliseconds. The formal one would be ms. Another one is
millisecs but this is very rare.

Leap seconds
Leap seconds are one-second adjustments added to the UTC time to synchronize it with solar
time. Leap seconds tend to cause trouble with software. For example, on June 30, 2012 you
had the time 23:59:60. Google uses a technique called leap smear on its servers, which,
instead of adding an extra second, extend seconds prior to the end of the day by a few
milliseconds each so that the day will last 1000 milliseconds longer.

Theory of Relativity
The Special and General theories of Relativity are taken into account by GPS receivers (found
in planes, cars and mobile phones) and Earth-orbiting satellites to synchronize their time
within a 20-30 nanosecond range. This happens because satellites are in motion relative to
the planet so the observers on the planet will perceive time is passing more slowly for the
satellites.

UTC vs. GMT simple take

UTC stands for Coordinated Universal Time. GMT stands for Greenwich Mean Time. UTC is a
universal time keeping standard by itself. A time expressed in UTC is essentially the time on
the whole planet. A time expressed in GMT is the time in the timezone of the Greenwich
meridian. In current computer science problems (and probably most scientific ones) UTC and
GMT expressed in absolute value happen to have identical values so they have been used
interchangeably.

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UTC vs. GMT complex take
 Literature and history are a bit ambiguous. UTC essentially appeared in 1960, GMT being the
‘main thing’ until then. Unlike GMT which is based on solar time and originally calculated a
second as a fraction of the time it takes for the Earth to make a full rotation around its axis,
UTC calculates a second as “the duration of 9192631770 periods of the radiation
corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the
cesium 133 atom”. UTC’s second is far more precise than GMT's original second. In 1972
leap seconds were introduced to synchronize UTC time with solar time. These 2 turning points
(different definition of a second and the introduction of leap seconds) ‘forced’ GMT to be the
same as UTC based on what seemed a gradual, tacit convention. If you were to calculate true
GMT today i would see it based on its original definition of 1 second = 1/86400 days and this
would for sure return a different absolute value than what UTC gives us. From this point of
view the name “GMT” seems deprecated, but kept around for backward compatibility,
traditional timezone based representation of time and sometimes legal reasons.

UTC vs. UT1

UT1 is the most precise form of universal time. It's computed using observations of quasars in
outer space (which make up the International Celestial Reference Frame) and of distances
between Earth and its satellites - natural (Moon) and artificial. UTC only tries to approximate
UT1: it is kept within 0.9 seconds of UT1 by employing leap seconds.

26 hour timezone span

Intuition tells us timezones should probably span from UTC+0 to UTC-12 to the west of the
Greenwhich Meridian and from UTC+0 to UTC+12 to the east. In fact they can reach UTC+14.
UTC+14 is Christmas Island's (Kiribati) time all year round and Samoa's daylight saving time
during southern hemisphere summer. Therefore the maximum difference between 2 local
times on Earth is 26 hours.

Common Epochs & Date/Time Formats

the most common is of course the UNIX epoch but some systems and services have different epochs

UNIX epoch 1712746189852 ms since January 1, 1970

LDAP / NT epoch 133572197898520000 ticks since January 1, 1601

NTP
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 .NET MinValue 638483429898520000 ticks since January 1, 0001

Mac OS X 734438989852 ms since January 1, 2001

ISO 8601 2024-04-10T10:49:49Z 2024-04-10T12:49:49+02:00

* 1 tick = 0.0001 milliseconds = 100 nanoseconds

Genesis & History

This site provides the current time in milliseconds elapsed since the UNIX epoch (Jan 1, 1970) as
well as in other common formats including local / UTC time comparisons. You can also
convert milliseconds to date & time and the other way around. More importantly, this site
offers a time navigation service for human users and a time authority service for
programmatic usage.

The "current millis" story started with me debugging my Android application. In Android you
tell an alarm when to come up by passing a simple number. This number has to be so large
that it can encompass all the time passed since midnight January 1st, 1970 but sufficiently
small that it can fit into existing data structures and keep going enough time in the future.
Precision: millisecond. Why 1970 you ask? It's just a convention: it was the roundest most
recent year to the point in time people actually started thinking about a universal measure of
time.

As i was debugging i needed something to tell me what the current time in ms is. Since a
program was already running, rather than just inspecting Java's System.currentTimeMillis()
or running a program that shows it to me, i figured i'll open a web page that shows it. There
was nothing like it in the search results. The funniest result i saw was telling me the local
time in Millis, Massachusetts. I couldn't believe there isn't a site that does such a simple
thing. I wrote currentmillis.com and hit enter. My ISP's page popped up telling me there is no
such page. I then checked with my hosting provider and it turned out this incredibly simple
domain was available. So i bought it and turned it into a single-serving website which shows,
you guessed it, the current time in ms.

In my opinion this is the most reasonably precise measuring standard ever. And timing isn't
the easiest problem to solve, especially in a world where GPS has to take into account
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Einstein's theory of relativity and leap seconds have to be added from time to time to keep
 UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) in sync with solar time. The irony is i probably would have
never found out that the last second of June 30, 2012 was 23:59:60 if i wouldn't have bought
currentmillis.com. It's strange that not so long ago on the cosmic scale, John Henry Belville
and Ruth Belville were "selling" time to customers by setting a master watch to Greenwich
Mean Time and then allowing others to adjust their own watches according to the Belville
master watch. At one point there was even a telegraphic time signal service, developed by
the Standard Time Company. The internet has changed the propagation of information
(including time) quite a lot, but the basic principle still stands: recognized 3rd party
authorities (i.e. time providers), a principle which stands in many types of protocols, not just
time-based.

My goal for this website is that programmers all around the world know: whenever you want
to see the current UTC time or the current time in ms (or in other common formats), you can
do so easily at CurrentMillis.com

Mission & Strategy

The mission of the CurrentMillis.com family of websites & services is to synchronize humans
and machines around the world.

This mission statement has a strong foundation in metaphysics: Synchronization is a

common denominator for the forces that govern the universe and is a sign of consciousness.
For example..

Particles in stars and planets are synchronized as they spin around their own axii and
along other trajectories, just as solar systems are synchronized in their motion around
the center of the galaxy
Cells in every living thing are synchronized in terms of function just as they are
synchronized against day / night cycles

I consider synchronization an all-encompassing phenomenon driven by “conscious features”

from large to small through spatial notions like gravity / attraction and informational notions
like communication / intent.

Humans have expanded in spatial & informational terms greatly in the last centuries to the
point that travel and access to information is available around the planet and even beyond,
through proven technologies.
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However, “temporal navigation” references used by the general public seem to remain
 arbitrary, ambiguous and limited in terms of device use & engineering.

In general use, i made it my purpose to help people and machines synchronize, by

offering a family of free browser / HTTP-based services with lightweight protocols.

Beyond general use, there is also a need to synchronize the “synchronizers” at the software
engineering level, by offering straight-forward browser-based time conversion tools and by
crystallizing time engineering standards.

But more importantly, the aim is to connect time engineering knowledge with time conversion
and time navigation by using a functional red line that defines a strategy, such as it is, for
time-keeping in the future.

Design Principles

"Explicit Persistence"
The ability to use software as a service (without heavy-weight protocols such as
authentication) is amazing. Avoiding server-side state (such as sessions) or client-side
state (such as cookies) gives us an incredible opportunity to persist data in something
which is shared between humans and processed by machines seamlessly: a URL. In
addition, "persistence in the URL" is transparent to the user and allows not only full
customization but high-speed customization as well.

"Practical Moonshooting"
A continuous succession of development / evaluation iterations for several features at
once, to filter out experiments until those features that are useful remain. They are
ambitious and ingenious steps, but not over-reaching, so that the next principle, that of
Consistency, can be applied to link services together into a family.

Consistency
To think of consistency as the ability to be remembered is empowering. When you
expect a button to be there and it actually is: this is a ticket to a nice ride. When it looks
and feels the same across a family of services, you instantly recognize it and you know
what it does. This allows you, as a user, to think ahead and use your brain-power
closer to its potential.

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World View
 The mentioned strategy and design principles emerge from a certain world view of
everything and everyone being subject to order and entropy. One of the most relevant ideas
that arise from such a model, beside the cosmological and scientific implications, is the fact
that we all originate from (and are subject to) the same universal phenomena and that, in the
end, we are collectively responsible for the resources we share - such as the Earth. Thus we
have to elevate our consciousness so that it's capable not only of individual or local but also
of collective and global perception of problems and solutions.

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