Discord Timestamp Generator

How to Use a Timestamp in a Discord Message

1. 1Set the date and time above. If you are scheduling for another region, pick the time zone the time is written in — the code is the same instant either way.
2. 2Copy the style you want. For a stream announcement, the combined row gives you the full date plus a live countdown.
3. 3Paste the code into any Discord message, as plain text — not inside backticks or a code block, which would show the raw code.
4. 4Send it. Discord replaces the code with a highlighted date, and every reader sees it converted to their own clock.

The pattern that works for streamers is one line in your announcements channel: Live on Twitch <t:1790884800:F> (<t:1790884800:R>). Viewers get the exact date in their zone and a countdown that stays current. It pairs well with a Go Live session in your own server for community nights. Timestamps combine with the rest of Discord's Markdown too — bold, headers, small text — all covered in our Discord text formatting cheat sheet.

What Each Timestamp Style Shows

Discord's developer documentation lists nine styles. The examples are Discord's own, for the same instant (1618953630) seen by a reader who uses a 24-hour clock. Your readers see the same layout in their own language and clock format.

Source: Discord Developer Docs, Timestamp Styles, checked September 27, 2026. Plenty of generators still list seven styles; s and S are the newer pair.

Why Every Reader Sees Their Own Local Time

The code does not store a time zone. It stores one instant — the number of seconds since 00:00 UTC on January 1, 1970 — and each Discord client formats that instant with the reader's own time zone and locale. That is the whole point: “8 PM EST” in a message makes half your community do arithmetic and some of them get it wrong around daylight-saving changes. A timestamp cannot be misread.

It also means the time zone picker above only matters to you, the writer. Choose the zone the time is written in — “9 PM in New York” — and the generator works out the instant; the code it produces is identical to what someone in Tokyo would get for the same moment.

Mistakes That Break a Timestamp

• Milliseconds instead of seconds. A 13-digit number is milliseconds and renders tens of thousands of years ahead. Current dates are 10 digits.
• Posting it inside backticks. Code formatting shows everything literally, timestamps included. Paste the code as plain text.
• Wrong letter case. Styles are case-sensitive: t is 16:20, T is 16:20:30.
• Writing the zone next to it. “<t:1790884800:t> EST” is wrong for everyone outside EST, because the timestamp has already converted itself.

Timestamps in Bots and Webhooks

A bot sends the same string in its message content: build it from Unix seconds (`<t:${Math.floor(date.getTime() / 1000)}:F>` in JavaScript, f"<t:{int(dt.timestamp())}:F>" in Python). Always floor to whole seconds — a decimal breaks the code. If your automation lives on the stream side rather than in Discord, our stream bots roundup compares Nightbot, Moobot, Streamer.bot and the rest.