Discord Timestamp Generator

Discord timestamp formats

Every tag is <t:UNIX:STYLE>. Examples below use 1700000000 (14 Nov 2023, 22:13 UTC) as seen by a US-English reader in New York:

Leave the letter off (<t:1700000000>) and Discord uses :f. Exact wording follows the reader's Discord language — a UK reader sees 14 November 2023 22:13 for :f.

Using timestamps on a Minecraft server Discord

• Event announcements — 🏗️ Build contest starts <t:1700000000:F> (<t:1700000000:R>). Players see the full local date plus a live countdown.
• Restarts & maintenance — Server restarting <t:1700000000:R> in your status channel; it flips to "x minutes ago" once done.
• Map resets & season launches — pin a message with :D for the date and :t for the time so international players stop asking "what time is that for me?".
• Whitelist / application deadlines — Applications close <t:1700000000:f>.

Tip: style your in-game MOTD with the matching Minecraft color codes so the event shows up on the server list too.

Discord timestamps in bots (discord.js & discord.py)

// discord.js v14
const { time, TimestampStyles } = require("discord.js");
const unix = Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000) + 3600; // in 1 hour

await channel.send(`Server restart ${time(unix, TimestampStyles.RelativeTime)}`);
// → "Server restart <t:1700003600:R>"
// or just build the string yourself:
const tag = `<t:${unix}:F>`;

# discord.py 2.x
import discord, datetime as dt

when = discord.utils.utcnow() + dt.timedelta(hours=1)
await channel.send(f"Server restart {discord.utils.format_dt(when, 'R')}")
# → "Server restart <t:1700003600:R>"
# or: f"<t:{int(when.timestamp())}:F>"

Both libraries only build the <t:…> string — Discord does the rendering, so the bot never needs to know the reader's time zone.

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