<p>This time format is known as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Unix time</a>. It is the number of seconds since 00:00 UTC, January 1st, 1970.</p>

CC BY-SA 4.0
2018-12-02T18:58:34.647Z
2018-12-02T18:58:34.647Z
Ava Chow
<p>I don't understand how to format the start and end time per <a href="https://docs.pro.coinbase.com/#get-historic-rates" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://docs.pro.coinbase.com/#get-historic-rates</a></p>

<p>The sample time is "1415398768" which makes no intuitive sense to me, and when I tried looking up ISO 8601 time formats, none of the formats I found have 10 digits like the bitcoin sample.</p>

<api><coinbase.com><timestamp>
Bitcoin Pro API - How do you format start/end time for Historic Data?
Victor
# Bitcoin Pro API - How do you format start/end time for Historic Data?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2018-12-02)

I don't understand how to format the start and end time per <https://docs.pro.coinbase.com/#get-historic-rates>

The sample time is "1415398768" which makes no intuitive sense to me, and when I tried looking up ISO 8601 time formats, none of the formats I found have 10 digits like the bitcoin sample.

**Tags:** api, coinbase.com, timestamp


---

## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2018-12-02. Score: 1

This time format is known as [Unix time](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time). It is the number of seconds since 00:00 UTC, January 1st, 1970.


---

