kairos

A Discord timestamp generator

Usage

kairos [--format=mode] [time]

Possible modes

• short-time
• long-time
• short-date
• long-date
• short-date-time*
• long-date-time
• relative

For more, see https://discord.com/developers/docs/reference#message-formatting-timestamp-styles for more for more.

* default

Time format

kairos will pattern matche a time in the format of YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm UTC±O where:

• YYYY is a four-digit year
• MM is a two-digit month
• DD is a two-digit day
• HH is a two-digit hour
• mm is a two-digit minute
• UTC±O is the string UTC followed by + or - and then a float offset O

If anything is left out, the default of the current date, time, and timezone will be used.

Examples

kairos

This will print out the Discord timestamp in short date time format using local time.

kairos --format relative 1970-01-01 00:00 UTC+0

This will return <t:0:R> which will print out the amount of time that has elapsed since the Unix epoch.