Unix timestamp to ISO date converter

This n8n workflow provides a simple yet powerful utility to convert Unix timestamps (seconds since epoch) into the universally recognized ISO 8601 date and time format. This is crucial for harmonizing date data across different systems, databases, and applications.

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🔧 How it works - Receive Timestamp Webhook: This node acts as the entry point, listening for incoming POST requests. It expects a JSON body containing a single property: timestamp, which should be a Unix timestamp in seconds (e.g., 1678886400). - Convert to ISO 8601: This node takes the timestamp received from the webhook. Since JavaScript's Date object typically uses milliseconds, it multiplies the Unix timestamp by 1000. It then uses new Date(...).toISOString() to convert this into an ISO 8601 formatted string (e.g., 2023-03-15T00:00:00.000Z) and assigns it to a new property called convertedTime. - Respond with Converted Time: This node sends the convertedTime property back as the response to the original webhook caller.

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👤 Who is it for? This workflow is extremely useful for:

- Developers & Integrators: When working with APIs or databases that return dates as Unix timestamps, and you need to display them in a human-readable or standardized format in your applications or dashboards. - Data Analysts & Scientists: For cleaning and transforming raw timestamp data from logs, event streams, or legacy systems into a consistent format for analysis. - System Administrators: For debugging logs where timestamps are often in Unix format. - Anyone Managing Data Imports/Exports: Ensuring date compatibility when moving data between different platforms. - Automators: As a building block in larger workflows where incoming data has Unix timestamps that need to be normalized before further processing (e.g., adding to a spreadsheet, sending in an email, or performing date calculations).

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📑 Data Structure When you trigger the webhook, send a POST request with a JSON body structured as follows: