What breaks in 2038
A signed 32-bit timestamp runs out on 19 January 2038. The date is fixed and known, the failure is unglamorous, and some systems are hitting it already.
Tools
- Convert: epoch to date and date to epoch, with a live epoch clock
- Batch: paste logs, JSON or CSV and decode every timestamp in place
- Zones: one moment across 19 time zones, plus DST transitions
- Cron: cron expression to plain English and next run times
- IDs: the creation time inside a Snowflake, ULID, UUIDv7 or ObjectId
- Formats: a date format string in another language or library
- Math: add or subtract a span from a timestamp, or compare two
Enable JavaScript to use the converters. Unix time is the number of seconds elapsed
since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC, excluding leap seconds.
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