How to Parse Unix Timestamp to time.Time in Go

Created May 1, 2022 at 9:53

Modified May 1, 2022 at 13:52

Using time.Unix Function

You can directly use time.Unix function of time which converts the unix time stamp to UTC.

See the following example:

package main

import (
  "fmt"
  "time"
)

func main() {

  // sec seconds and nsec nanoseconds since January 1, 1970 UTC.
  var i int64 = 1651383433

  t := time.Unix(i, 0)
  fmt.Println(t.UTC())
}

2022-05-01 05:37:13 +0000 UTC

Using milliseconds

The built-in time.Unix() function supports second and nanosecond precision. For example,

package main

import (
  "fmt"
  "time"
)

func main() {

  var ms int64 = 1651383433905

  t := time.Unix(ms/int64(1000), (ms%int64(1000))*int64(1000000))
  fmt.Println(t.UTC())
}