Unix timestamp

1229817600

Sun 21 Dec 2008 12:00:00 AM UTC

Coordinated Universal Time

Sun Dec 21 00:00:00 2008 UTC

In your local timezone

2008-12-21T00:00:00+00:00

ISO 8601

Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000

RFC 2822

2454822

Julian Date

24 Kislev 5769

Hebrew Date

041

Swatch Internet Time

355

Day of the year

December

Month

31

Days in month

51

Week

Sunday

Day of the week

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1229817600

Converting Unix timestamp 1229817600 using our Time Converter gives us the following information:

1229817600 is representing the 355 day of the year 2008 in the Gregorian calendar which was a leap year having 366 days. There are 11 days left of the year and this particular timestamp falls on a Sunday, December 21 of week 51 at 00:00 UTC in the monrning meaning that about 0% of the day has passed. At this specifc time, the moon was in its Third quarter phase, about 242,669 miles (or 390,537 km) from Earth.

On this day, many notable and historically important events have taken place. But to only mention a few, in year 69, the Roman Senate declares Vespasian emperor of Rome, the last in the Year of the Four Emperors. And later in 1124 Pope Honorius II is consecrated, having been elected after the controversial dethroning of Pope Celestine II. More recently, in 2020 a Great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn occurs, with the two planets separated in the sky by 0.1 degrees. This is the closest conjunction between the two planets since 1623.

We've also, tragically, seen a few famous deaths throughout history on this day. One notable mention is in 72 when Thomas the Apostle, Roman martyr and saint (born in 1 AD) passed away and in 882 when Hincmar, French archbishop and historian (born in 806) left us. And more recently, Bruce McCandless II, US astronaut who conducted the first untethered spacewalk (born in 1937) who died in in 2017.

December 21, or 1229817600, is also a day that we should celebrate. This date marks the birth of many influential people throughout history, including Minamoto no Yorinobu, Japanese samurai (died in 1048) who was born in 968, and later in 1401 - Masaccio, Italian painter (died in 1428). More recently, Kelly Smith, English rugby union player who was born in 1995.

Conversion help

For your conveniance, we have listed the conversion syntaxes for 1229817600 timestamp to serveral of the most popular programming lanugages below.

PHP
date('Y-m-d H:i:s', 1229817600);
MySQL
select from_unixtime(1229817600);
JavaScript
new Date(1229817600*1000).toString();
C++
time_t epch = 1229817600;
printf("%i -> %s", epch, asctime(gmtime(&epch))); (time.h);
C#
String.Format("{0:d/M/yyyy HH:mm:ss}", new System.DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0).AddSeconds(1229817600));
Java
new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss").format(new Date(1229817600 * 1000L))
Ruby
require 'date'
DateTime.strptime("1229817600",'%s')
Binary
10010010 10011011 00001110 0000000
Hexadecimal
494d8700

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