<p>The times that you are looking at are using a format known as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time" rel="nofollow">unix time or Epoch time</a>. It is represented as the seconds since 00:00:00 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time" rel="nofollow">UTC</a> on 1st of January 1970.</p>

<p>Most programming languages have classes dedicated to format them into human readable times.
For example in <code>python</code> you can use <a href="https://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html#module-datetime" rel="nofollow">datetime</a>.</p>

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2014-05-22T21:21:21.550Z
2014-05-23T07:42:46.183Z
2014-05-23T07:42:46.183Z
Murch
<p>All timestamps are in UNIX format, that is: the number of seconds since januari 1st 1970, 0:00 UTC.</p>

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Pieter Wuille
<p>I read around about the differences between time, blocktime and timereceived, but one question remains. Although I assume all times are UTC, I haven't seen that mentioning specifically anywhere.</p>

<p>Does anybody know which timezone the times in the bitcoin blockchain are formatted in? And does this also account for timereceived, or is that local?</p>

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Are time, timereceived and blocktime in UTC?
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# Are time, timereceived and blocktime in UTC?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-08-28)

I read around about the differences between time, blocktime and timereceived, but one question remains. Although I assume all times are UTC, I haven't seen that mentioning specifically anywhere.

Does anybody know which timezone the times in the bitcoin blockchain are formatted in? And does this also account for timereceived, or is that local?

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## 2 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2014-08-28. Score: 5 | Accepted answer

All timestamps are in UNIX format, that is: the number of seconds since januari 1st 1970, 0:00 UTC.


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### Answer by username_1 on 2014-05-22. Score: 1

The times that you are looking at are using a format known as [unix time or Epoch time](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time). It is represented as the seconds since 00:00:00 [UTC](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time) on 1st of January 1970.

Most programming languages have classes dedicated to format them into human readable times.
For example in `python` you can use [datetime](https://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html#module-datetime).


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