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I Was Tired of Wrong Timestamp Conversions, So I Built DevTicks for .NET Developers

I Was Tired of Wrong Timestamp Conversions, So I Built DevTicks for .NET Developers

via Dev.to WebdevPrashant Odhavani

Have you ever copy-pasted a .NET ticks value from a log file into some random online converter at 2 AM, desperately trying to figure out when exactly something went wrong? If so, you should read this article. A few months ago, I released DevTicks , a Chrome extension that lives right in your browser toolbar, providing you with accurate .NET ticks to DateTime to Unix Epoch conversion, as well as multi-timezone comparison, all without the need to login or provide any data. The story of how I built it, as well as everything it can do. The Problem: Timestamp Hell Is Real Ask any backend dev, cloud dev, or QA tester who has to deal with .NET applications. At some point, you've encountered one of the following: You're debugging an Azure or AWS log, and you see the timestamp 638765432000000000 . What time is that? You're writing a SQL/MongoDB query to fetch data for "today" and need the start/end of day as ticks. You need to calculate a Unix timestamp for an API payload. Is it seconds or mill

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