2026-10-07

Countdown To New Year 2027

This year, football/soccer, with the World Cup eventually won by Spain in New York and with the second UEFA Champions League win in a row by Paris Saint-Germain brought spectacle, entertainment and a distraction from other extremely serious topics. This was the inspiration for the featured links below in preparation for the upcoming renewal of the year:

Countdown to New Year in Madrid, Barcelona & Paris 2027 

Countdown to New Year in New York 2027

Happy New Year 2027 in advance!

2026-09-07

New time synchronization endpoint. Deprecation & Sunset for legacy endpoints.

All PHP-based timestamp/synchronization services inside the /time URL path, including https://currentmillis.com/time/minutes-since-unix-epoch.php, have been marked for deprecation and sunset, i.e. removal. All these aforementioned PHP services have been, for a while now, setting the following response headers:

Deprecation = @1794394800

Sunset = Wed, 11 Nov 2026 11:11:11 GMT

This means, effectively, that at any point in time after November 11, 2026 the mentioned services may and will stop functioning.

As a potential replacement, with a better resolution (at seconds level), but with a different format/paradigm, the new "beacon" can be used. Effectively, this is a new, lightweight endpoint designed for HEAD or GET requests. Here is the latest version of this beacon:

Current Millis V2 Time Beacon

The paradigm shift implies relying on multiple sources of truth and calculating the best approximation of the current time based on the available sources of truth. One such source, in this case, can be the Date response header returning the current time in IMF-fixdate format from the currently available beacon, but in time, multiple beacons (and multiple types of beacons/endpoints) may become available. Stay tuned!

2018-12-16

33% more visits in 2018

The time is upon us, once again, to look back at this year in comparison with the one before and it is very satisfying to report that it's the 5th year of consecutive growth, with over 33% more visits (sessions) in 2018 than the year before. As expected, this was a year of growth as a consequence of the massive development that was done in 2017. 2019 however will be a year of exploring additional directions. From interactions that i've had with users of the website, new and very interesting aspects of time keeping have come up which i will attempt to incorporate into the website, yet some of them are so complex that it will not be just a one-year process.

This year, like every year before it, most visitors came from the U.S.A. and India, so, to uphold the tradition i started a while back, i will post below some countdowns to the new year for these locations, from east to west (the direction in which the new year propagates :)
You can create such countdowns at CurrentMillis.com of course. I wish all the nations of the Earth a Happy New Year, in the hope that we soon realize we are in fact only one, big nation, and, especially, good luck to those who make great efforts so that humanity can become a space-faring civilization!

2017-12-26

A Year Of Development Behind & A Year Of Expansion Ahead

A lot has happened in 2017.. We went through the roundest Unix timestamp in 15 years, we introduced many features in the website, we counted down to astronomical events like the solar eclipse and the Perseids meteor shower, and much more..

We have already begun - but are especially looking forward to - a year 2018 of expansion where time measurement and time synchronization is concerned (for personal use but also for public or industrial use)
But remember, in case you want to create a deadline for any event, just visit the https://currentmillis.com/datetime/ time portal and you can set the local or global time.

We wish all the nations of the Earth a Happy New Year, in the realization that we are one big family. While 2017 has been filled with struggles from many points of view, we must shift towards new ways of thinking together as Humanity and of protecting our Home, the Earth. Our prediction for next year is: 2018 is the first year of our common future! Live long and prosper!

2017-08-05

Season of Astronomical Events

First of all, The Perseids Meteor Shower is currently already underway and will peak in just under two weeks!

Perseids Meteor Shower

Moment: Meteor Shower Peak (Aug 12, 17:00 UTC) according to space.com

More info: https://space.com/32868-perseid-meteor-shower-guide.html

Then towards the end of the month, on the 21st of August, North America will witness a solar eclipse, which will even be total on a path that stretches through the United States.

Total Solar Eclipse

Moment: First point of contact: Oregon (Aug 21, 16:05 UTC) (local time is 09:05 AM PDT) according to nasa.gov

More info: https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/

2017-07-12

The Roundest UNIX Timestamp in 15 Years

In little over a day we will witness the roundest UNIX timestamp in 15 years:
One thousand five hundred billion milliseconds will have passed since the UNIX epoch. The moment will occur on the 14th of July, mostly popular for being the National Day of France.

2016-12-30

Countdown to New Year 2017

To continue a tradition which was just recently started in 2015, here are New Year Countdowns to the top 2 countries in terms of currentmillis.com visitors:

2016-08-27

www.* will redirect to *

From now on all URLs starting with non-canonical forms such as http://www.currentmillis.com/* will redirect to https://currentmillis.com/* (purpose: standardization of external links to the site)

2016-05-07

New Moment/Calendar Buttons!

The CurrentMillis.com Moment/Calendar now has 4 buttons to enhance time navigation & synchronization:
  • Progress 
    • can be ON or OFF
    • is displayed only for the future
    • if enabled, a progress bar showing the flow of time towards the future will be displayed
  • Countdown
    • is displayed only for the future
    • is a link button which, when clicked, will open a dedicated countdown page for the defined moment
  • Seconds
    • can be ON or OFF
    • if enabled, the time difference between the present and the moment defined by the page/URL will be displayed in seconds (otherwise & by default it is in minutes to avoid distracting changes)
  • Now
    • is a link button which, when clicked, will load the user's present moment

To test them out you can check this moment in a (not so distant future): Star Trek's First Contact :)
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