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Discord Snowflake Decoder

Turn any Discord ID into its creation date and the internal snowflake parts.

Created (your time)
4/30/2016, 11:18:25 AM
Created (UTC)
Sat, 30 Apr 2016 11:18:25 GMT
Relative
9 years ago
ISO 8601
2016-04-30T11:18:25.796Z
Unix (seconds)
1462015105
Unix (milliseconds)
1462015105796
Worker ID
1
Process ID
0
Increment
7

What a snowflake decoder does

Every ID in Discord is a snowflake: a 64-bit number that packs the creation time and a few internal counters into a single value. Because the time is baked into the ID, you can read the exact moment any user, message, channel, or server was created without calling the Discord API.

How to decode a Discord ID

  1. Enable Developer Mode in Discord (Settings → Advanced → Developer Mode).
  2. Right-click a user, message, channel, or server and Copy ID.
  3. Paste the ID above to see its creation date and details.

What the fields mean

  • Created: the exact time the object was made, in your local time and in UTC.
  • Unix timestamp: the same moment in seconds and milliseconds, handy for code and for the timestamp generator.
  • Worker and process ID: which internal Discord machine created the ID.
  • Increment: a counter for IDs created on that worker in the same millisecond.

Frequently asked questions

A snowflake is the unique ID Discord gives every user, message, channel, server, and role. It is a large number that encodes the exact time the object was created, plus a few internal fields.

Turn on Developer Mode in Discord under Settings, then Advanced. After that you can right-click almost anything (a user, message, channel, or server) and choose Copy ID.

Discord shifts the snowflake right by 22 bits and adds the Discord epoch (1 January 2015). That gives the creation time in milliseconds, which this tool converts to your local time, UTC, ISO 8601, and a Unix timestamp.

They are internal details of how Discord generates IDs. The worker and process IDs identify the machine that created the object, and the increment counts IDs made on that worker in the same millisecond. They are mostly useful to developers.

Yes. Paste a user ID and the creation date is when that account was registered. The relative value, like 3 years ago, is a quick way to read account age.

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