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Description
Epoch shows the current moment across a wide range of time systems —
updating every second, all in one place.
What Epoch gives you
- Civil: date, time, day second, day percent — for any timezone
- Technical: Unix time, International Atomic Time (TAI), GPS time
- Astronomical: Greenwich and Local Mean Sidereal Time (GMST, LMST), Julian Date variants
- Curiosities: Swatch Internet Time, seven-segment and binary clocks, Doomsday Clock
Copy any value to clipboard with one tap.
Configurable
- Build your own Watchlist tabs — combine any value from any category, in any order.
- Set custom labels, section headers, and dividers.
- Reorder by drag-and-drop, swipe to remove.
- Customize date and time formats, configure timezone information.
- Optionally pin timezones to always show standard or summer time.
- 7-day advance notice of clock changes, with upcoming transitions shown in the value's info dialog.
- Export, import, and reset all preferences.
Focus mode
- Double-tap any value for a full-screen, always-on display — ideal as a bedside clock.
- Adjustable brightness (Android) and text color.
- Toggle details with a long press.
Designed for night use
Night mode displays red text on black — preserving your eyes' dark adaptation for stargazing.
Example configurations
Ready-to-import example configurations are available on GitHub,
including spaceflight tab, world timezone explorer, and config manual.
Privacy first
No ads, notifications, tracking, analytics, or network requests.
All settings stored locally on your device.
No permissions required.
For Local Mean Sidereal Time: optionally grant location access once (coarse, no GPS) or enter longitude manually.
Available in English and German.
What’s new (1.4.0)
- Upcoming clock changes in value info dialog
- Configurable date and time formats (presets and custom patterns)
- Color-coded stripe shows quarter of day — great for world clock tabs
- Linux: load a config file via terminal
- Example configs and config manual on GitHub
- Timezone abbreviations for DE: MEZ, MESZ, OEZ, OESZ, WEZ, WESZ
- Improved timezone search
Fixed
- Swatch Beats rounding error (up to half a beat off)
- custom labels were reset on repeated edits
+ other improvements
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Permissions
What the app asks the system for. Android only grants sensitive access after you confirm it.
- Approximate locationDetermine the location via the network.
- epoch.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION
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