Unix timestamp

840502740

Tue 20 Aug 1996 12:59:00 AM UTC

Coordinated Universal Time

Tue Aug 20 00:59:00 1996 UTC

In your local timezone

1996-08-20T00:59:00+00:00

ISO 8601

Tue, 20 Aug 1996 00:59:00 +0000

RFC 2822

2450316

Julian Date

5 Elul 5756

Hebrew Date

082

Swatch Internet Time

232

Day of the year

August

Month

31

Days in month

34

Week

Tuesday

Day of the week

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840502740

Converting Unix timestamp 840502740 using our Time Converter gives us the following information:

840502740 is representing the 232 day of the year 1996 in the Gregorian calendar which was a leap year having 366 days. There are 134 days left of the year and this particular timestamp falls on a Tuesday, August 20 of week 34 at 00:59 UTC in the monrning meaning that about 4% of the day has passed. At this specifc time, the moon was in its Waxing crescent phase, about 239,230 miles (or 385,003 km) from Earth.

On this day, many notable and historically important events have taken place. But to only mention a few, in year 636, marking the first great wave of Muslim conquests and the rapid advance of Islam outside Arabia, Arab forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid defeat the Byzantine Empire and take control of the Levant. And later in 1083 the first King of Hungary, Stephen I, and his son, Prince Emeric, are canonized, a date now celebrated as a National Day in Hungary. More recently, in 2020 Joe Biden gives his acceptance speech virtually for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination at the 2020 Democratic National Convention.

We've also, tragically, seen a few famous deaths throughout history on this day. One notable mention is in 14 when Agrippa Postumus, Roman son of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (born 12 BC) passed away and in 535 when Mochta, Irish missionary and saint left us. And more recently, Al Attles, American basketball player and coach (born 1936) who died in in 2024.

August 20, or 840502740, is also a day that we should celebrate. This date marks the birth of many influential people throughout history, including Shahrukh Mirza, ruler of Persia and Transoxiania (died 1447) who was born in 1377, and later in 1517 - Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, French cardinal and art collector (died 1586). More recently, Prince Gabriel of Belgium who was born in 2003.

Conversion help

For your conveniance, we have listed the conversion syntaxes for 840502740 timestamp to serveral of the most popular programming lanugages below.

PHP
date('Y-m-d H:i:s', 840502740);
MySQL
select from_unixtime(840502740);
JavaScript
new Date(840502740*1000).toString();
C++
time_t epch = 840502740;
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(840502740));
Java
new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss").format(new Date(840502740 * 1000L))
Ruby
require 'date'
DateTime.strptime("840502740",'%s')
Binary
11001000 01100100 00110111 010100
Hexadecimal
32190dd4

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