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Epoch displays 18+ civil, technical, and astronomical time systems simultaneously, including Unix time, TAI, GPS time, Julian Date variants, and Swatch Internet Time. Fully customizable watchlist tabs, night mode for stargazing, and no ads or tracking. New in 1.5.1: four additional Julian Date variants, exit button in popup menu, and expanded build info.
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About this app
Epoch displays the current moment across a wide range of civil, technical, and astronomical time systems — all in one place, updating every second.
The name is borrowed from the technical term for a reference point in time (as in Unix epoch or astronomical epoch). The letters also happen to spell out Elegant presentation of chronometers — though the word came first.
Features
Time systems
- Civil – date, time, day second, day percent for any timezone - Technical – Unix time, TAI, GPS time - Astronomical – GMST, LMST, Julian Date, Modified Julian Date (MJD), MJD2000 - Curiosities – Swatch Internet Time, 3 binary clocks, Doomsday Clock
Configurable display
- Fully customizable tabs (Watchlist) — any values from any category, in any order, plus custom tab labels - Civil tab configurable with any timezone worldwide - Flexible timezone search (city, country, timezone name or abbreviation, UTC offset) - Drag-and-drop reordering, swipe to remove - Custom labels for individual values - Copy any value to clipboard with one tap
Design
- Night mode with red-on-black display — preserves dark adaptation for stargazing - Light, dark, and system themes - Full-screen toggle (double-tap on the app's name in the top-left corner) - 12 / 24-hour format toggle - Thousands separator toggle - Expanded date toggle - Available in English and German - Android widgets coming soon - Not yet: conversions between time systems
Privacy & permissions
- No ads. No notifications. No tracking. No analytics. No network requests. - All settings stored locally on your device - No permissions required
What makes Epoch different?
Most clock apps show you one or two time formats. Epoch shows you 18 different time values simultaneously, lets you pick exactly which ones you care about, and explains what each one means. It is built for people who are curious about how time actually works.
License
© 2026 RealEarthling
GPL-3.0-or-later
What's new
Added four more Julian Date variants: Reduced JD, Dublin JD, CNES JD, and CCSDS JD. - Added an Exit app button in the popup menu. - Build info now shows Git commit, timezone, and IANA database versions (long-press the logo or title). - Fixed an issue where importing a config with "locationAccess" on desktop showed LMST but no longitude in Settings. - Fixed update_timezone_to_latest_iana_db.sh not keeping a clean timezone backup copy. - Fixed the info text for TAI to clarify it's a continuous timescale, not an epoch starting at 1977-01-01.
About this version
- Version
- 1.5.1 (81)
- Size
- 17.56 MB
- Requires Android
- 7.0
- Target SDK
- 24
- Architecture
- armeabi-v7a
- Downloads
- 3
- Updated
- Sep 19, 2026
- Package
- io.github.RealEarthling.epoch
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