Time Stamp Decoding

dimondjack · Post by **dimondjack** » Sun Jul 17, 2016 2:34 am

How do I decode the UTC time stamp to a real time? I tried decoding it as GPS time but online the stamp came out to 2026 which I know isn't right.

A sample time stamp is: 1467460079480

Thanks.

dimondjack · Post by **dimondjack** » Mon Jul 18, 2016 2:06 am

After some research, I may have solved this one as well. I think the time is actually Unix time. It starts at 1/1/1970 GMT and is the # of milliseconds since then. If you are using excel, you need to convert it in to days since 1/1/1970 and then add "1/1/1970" (use the quotes) to it. Seems to give a reasonable date and time.

rdoherty · Post by **rdoherty** » Mon Jul 18, 2016 5:14 pm

You are correct, the UTC channel is unix time in milliseconds. Most software and programming languages have tools for converting a unix timestamp into a human-readable date format.