PHP: How to convert epoch time to human time and human time to epoch time

Posted On February 7, 2025

Epoch time is Unix timestamp which counts the number of seconds since January 1 1970 00:00:00 UTC. It is an integer number that represents a date and time. See example:

1355288400

is epoch time for Dec. 12, 2012 midnight.

To convert human readable date and epoch time, use strtotime() function as follows:

<?php
  print strtotime('2010-04-25');
  print $now;
?>

Convert Epoch Time to Human Readable Time

<?php
  $human_date=date("Y-m-d", 1251627495);
  print human_date;
?>