Unix Timestamp 0

What date is Unix timestamp 0?

Unix timestamp 0 represents Thursday, January 1, 1970 at 12:00:00 AM UTC. This is 56 years ago from the current time.

Is 0 in seconds or milliseconds?

0 has 1 digits, which means it is in seconds. Multiply by 1,000 to get milliseconds: 0.

How do I convert 0 in JavaScript?

// Normalized to Unix seconds: 0
const tsSec = 0;
new Date(tsSec * 1000).toISOString();
// "1970-01-01T00:00:00.000Z"

How do I convert 0 in Python?

import datetime
ts = 0
dt = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(
    ts, tz=datetime.timezone.utc)
print(dt.isoformat())
# "1970-01-01T00:00:00.000Z"

What is the Unix timestamp for right now?

Use our live timestamp converter to get the current Unix timestamp. In JavaScript: Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000). In Python: int(time.time()). In bash: date +%s.