Reddit Post Date FinderFind when any Reddit post or comment was published — exact timestamp, not "2 years ago"

How to See the Exact Date of a Reddit Post

Reddit only shows a relative label like “2 years ago” or “7 months ago” — the exact date a Reddit post was made is never displayed in the UI. There are three common ways to check the date of a Reddit post:

1. Paste the URL into this tool: the fastest way to see the exact date of a Reddit post. Drop in any post or comment URL and the Post Date Finder returns the precise UTC timestamp from Reddit’s public JSON metadata.
2. Hover the relative label on desktop: Reddit shows a tooltip with the absolute date when you hover the “X ago” label. Desktop only, locale-dependent format, and you have to do it one post at a time.
3. Append .json to the post URL: the manual route. You’ll get raw JSON back with a created_utc Unix timestamp that you have to convert yourself — this tool just automates that step.

Reddit Post ID → Timestamp Decoder

Every Reddit post has a short ID in its URL — for example 1j8q472 or qipyif. These IDs are base-36 encoded sequential values, so newer posts have larger IDs. The ID alone doesn’t directly encode a timestamp, but every Reddit post ID can be resolved to its created_utc value by asking Reddit’s public API — which is exactly what this Reddit post ID timestamp decoder does under the hood.

You don’t need to write base-36 conversion yourself or guess from creation order. Paste the full post URL (the ID is the segment after /comments/) and the tool returns the exact UTC datetime.

Reddit Comment Date Finder

Comment timestamps work the same way as post timestamps. Paste any Reddit comment permalink — the URL that points directly to a comment, ending in /comment/<id>/ or any “Share > Copy link” URL from a comment — and the tool will return the exact UTC date and time the comment was posted. Useful for finding the exact date a comment was made when reviewing thread timelines, citing a comment in research, or investigating bot activity in long threads.