Unix Timestamp: Telescope

Read any Unix Timestamp the way humans read time. Telescope is the fastest way to convert between Unix Timestamps and human-readable dates on macOS. It lives in your menu bar — copy a value from a log line, JSON payload, database row, or API response, and Telescope's popover surfaces the converted Local date and ISO8601 string instantly. Click to copy. Done. Originally released in 2016 and now fully rebuilt for Apple Silicon and modern macOS. KEY FEATURES Clipboard-aware. Copy any Unix Timestamp and Telescope pops up automatically with the conversion. No window switching, no tab juggling. Bi-directional. Go from a Unix Timestamp to a date, or pick a date and get its Unix Timestamp — both in one popover, both one tap to copy. Multi-precision parsing. Seconds, milliseconds, microseconds, and nanoseconds, detected automatically from the digit count. Whatever your backend emits, Telescope reads it. Local and ISO8601 side by side. Every conversion shows both formats, monospaced and copy-ready. ISO8601 with fractional seconds when the source has them. Launch at login. Telescope is there every time you boot, out of the way until you need it. Uses the modern macOS service framework, not the legacy login-items API. 24-hour or 12-hour formatting. Your choice — set once in Settings. Zero network. Everything runs locally. Sandboxed under macOS App Sandbox. No telemetry, no servers, no accounts. Your clipboard never leaves your machine. Apple Silicon native. Small, fast, idle CPU near zero. Designed to live in your menu bar for years without you noticing. WHO IT'S FOR Backend and API developers reading server logs. Data engineers sanity-checking date columns in CSVs, BigQuery, Snowflake. Sysadmins and SREs parsing systemd, Kubernetes, monitoring output. Anyone who has ever copied "1700000000" out of a config file and wondered when that was. ONE-TIME PURCHASE Telescope is a single, one-time purchase. No subscriptions. No in-app upsells. Anyone who bought the original Telescope receives this update at no additional cost. SUPPORT Support: https://help.onlyroadtrips.com/en/collections/11122-telescope Privacy: https://help.onlyroadtrips.com/en/articles/55657-telescope-privacy-policy