Why a timestamp reads an hour off
One hour of drift is the most common timestamp bug there is. It has five usual causes, and telling them apart takes about a minute once you know what to look for.
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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