# Timestamp converter

Convert Unix timestamps in any unit, or ISO dates, into readable dates in any time zone.

## How it works

The unit is guessed from the number of digits: 10 for seconds, 13 for milliseconds, 16 for microseconds and 19 for nanoseconds, as OpenTelemetry uses.

## Questions

### Why does my date look wrong?

The unit is usually wrong: a millisecond value read as seconds lands thousands of years away.

### Which time zone is stored?

Unix timestamps are always UTC; time zones only matter when you display them.

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