Snowflake ID timestamps on Discord, X/Twitter, Instagram and others

A Snowflake ID is a 64-bit unique identifier used by platforms like Discord, X/Twitter and Instagram. It contains a timestamp component along with other information such as a machine ID and a sequence number.

This converter decodes the timestamp inside a Snowflake ID and displays it as a human-readable date.

The different platforms use different custom epochs (start dates) for their Snowflake IDs, so the same ID value represents a different date on each platform:

  • For Discord, the custom epoch is January 1, 2015, midnight UTC (1420070400000 ms Unix time).
  • For X/Twitter, the custom epoch is November 4, 2010, 01:42:54.657 UTC (1288834974657 ms Unix time).
  • For Instagram, the custom epoch is August 24, 2011, 21:07:01.721 UTC (1314220021721 ms Unix time).

Convert a Snowflake ID to a readable date

A Snowflake ID for Discord with a recent timestamp is 1512826732476891136

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