Discord Timestamps: How to Show a Time in Everyone's Time Zone

By Abdur RehmanOctober 26, 20263 min read🖨 Print

Quick answer: type <t:UNIX:F> in a Discord message, replacing UNIX with the time as a Unix timestamp in seconds — for example <t:1767225600:F>. Discord shows it in each reader's own time zone. The easiest way to get the code is a Discord timestamp generator.

"The event starts at 8 PM" means a different time in New York, London and Karachi. Discord timestamps fix that: instead of writing a time, you post a small code, and Discord displays it in every member's local time and date format. Here's how they work, every format available, and the quickest way to create one.

How Discord timestamps work

A Discord timestamp has three parts inside angle brackets:

<t:1767225600:F>

• t: tells Discord this is a timestamp.
• 1767225600 is a Unix timestamp — the number of seconds since 1 January 1970 (UTC). This one is 1 January 2026 at midnight UTC.
• :F is the optional display style. If you leave it out, Discord uses style f.

Because a Unix timestamp marks one exact moment, Discord can convert it to anybody's local time — including daylight saving time — without you doing any time zone maths.

All Discord timestamp formats

Here is how <t:1767225600:STYLE> looks to a reader in New York with English (US) settings. Readers in other countries see their own local time and date format.

Notice that this reader sees December 31, 2025: midnight UTC on 1 January is still New Year's Eve in New York. That's exactly the kind of confusion timestamps prevent.

How to create a Discord timestamp in seconds

1. Open the Discord timestamp generator.
2. Pick the date and time, and the time zone that time is in (for example, 8 PM in America/New_York).
3. Copy the code for the style you want — the table shows a live preview of each one.
4. Paste it into your Discord message and send. It changes into a formatted date as soon as it's posted.

Received a timestamp and want to know exactly what it means? Paste the code into the generator's Decode box to see the date and time.

Making the code by hand

If you already know the Unix timestamp, you can type the code yourself. To get the number, use a Unix timestamp converter: pick the date and time, and copy the value in seconds. Then write <t:, the number, a colon, the style letter and >.

Tips for event announcements

• Combine two styles. <t:1767225600:F> (<t:1767225600:R>) shows the full date and a live countdown, such as "Wednesday, December 31, 2025 7:00 PM (in 2 days)".
• Use relative time for countdowns. The R style updates by itself, so "in 3 hours" becomes "in 2 hours" without editing the message.
• Hover to check. On desktop, hovering over a timestamp shows the full date and time in a tooltip.
• Planning across time zones? Use the Time Zone Converter to choose a time that suits most members before you announce it.

Common mistakes

• Milliseconds instead of seconds. JavaScript's Date.now() and many tools give 13-digit milliseconds. Discord needs 10-digit seconds — divide by 1,000.
• Wrong time zone when converting. If you convert "8 PM" as if it were UTC, everyone sees the wrong time. Always set the time zone the time is in.
• Inside a code block. Text wrapped in backticks isn't formatted, so the code shows as plain text.
• Typos in the format. Spaces, missing angle brackets or a lowercase/uppercase mix-up (f vs F) change or break the result.
• Places that don't support message formatting — such as channel names — show the raw code instead of a date.

Timestamps for bot developers

Bots use exactly the same format in messages and embeds. In discord.py, discord.utils.format_dt(dt, style="F") builds the code from a datetime. In discord.js, the time(date, TimestampStyles.RelativeTime) helper does the same. You can also build the string yourself from a Unix timestamp in seconds.

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Written by Abdur Rehman

ERP developer and AI & automation engineer who builds and maintains every tool on WebToolNest. More about me.