Unix & Readable Time - PHP Tool
The current unix timestamp and the human readable equlivant.
Edited: 2023-10-28 09:22
The input (unix time or English date string):
The output (Y-m-d H:i:s, unix, and time zone):
Today's unix timestamp is initially shown, as well as the human-readable equivalent. You can either type a readable date or a unix stamp and hit the "convert" button to view its equivalent.
cURL:
curl -d "datetime=today + 1 day" https://beamtic.com/api/time/date
curl -d "json=true" https://beamtic.com/api/time/unix
How can this tool be used
You can use this tool to convert an English date string to a unix timestamp and Vice versa. The tool relies on PHP's built-in date and strtotime functions.
Some pretty interesting things are possible when converting strings to unix time. E.g. Try writing today + 1 day and observe the output.
Time table
The following table shows how many seconds there is over different time spans. Note that values are only approximates. The actual number of seconds in given periods may very due to leap seconds; in addition, the number of days in a single month also varies. If you need precision, then you should not rely on UNIX timestamps.
| 1 day | 86400 |
| 1 weak | 604800 |
| 1 month | 2629746 |
| 1 year | 31556952 |
How the timestamp tool works
This tool works by contacting a server-side PHP script by sending an AJAX GET request using the http client; the server then creates the timestamp using PHP and sends it back to your browser.
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