One instant, several representations
A Unix timestamp identifies an instant independently of display time zone. UTC and local formatting can show different calendar dates while referring to the same instant.
Seconds and milliseconds
0 seconds is 1970-01-01T00:00:00.000Z. A typical current timestamp has about 10 digits in seconds or 13 digits in milliseconds. Choose an explicit unit when magnitude-based detection would be ambiguous.
Limits and precision
JavaScript dates and browser locale data determine the supported range and historical zone formatting. The converter truncates displayed epoch values to whole milliseconds and does not handle leap seconds.