# Support for converting Epoch to readable dates

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/support-for-converting-epoch-to-readable-dates/54179
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [August 23, 2021, 8:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/support-for-converting-epoch-to-readable-dates/54179 "2021-08-23T20:29:26Z")
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### Author: ![lotushomerun](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/lotushomerun/32/9685_2.png) [@lotushomerun](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/lotushomerun)
#### Post date: [August 23, 2021, 8:29pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/support-for-converting-epoch-to-readable-dates/54179/1 "2021-08-23T20:29:26Z")

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Some tagging tools like JRiver Media Center like append a "days since Epoch" tag for full dates, instead of having a formated, readable date. JRiver stores this in JR/DATE (JR\_DATE in Vorbis Comments)

JRiver then replaces the actual date field with just the year and adds it's usual shenagains onto the tags.  
Before:

 ![Mp3tag_2021-08-23_12-53-07](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/9/965eb93cdf2a8e62e43f5094e8af5cc919e65dbe.png)

After. Yellow is the tags that JRiver added and red is the tags that JRiver forcefully edited. The tag enclosed in a red box is the one I want to target:

 ![Mp3tag_2021-08-23_13-15-15](https://community.mp3tag.de/uploads/default/original/2X/2/2b0169d9133a3581820aebc4e4bdf3d1dff0e997.png)

Removing the other tags is easy, but no other tagger than JRiver (and Yate, although unsure because I do not have it) is able to convert Epoch to a readable and formatted date  
When the date converter is used it'll format it to either Windows' date settings, YYYY-MM-DD or a user specified format.

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### Author: ![LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/c6cbf5/32.png) [@LyricsLover](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/LyricsLover)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2021, 10:40am UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/support-for-converting-epoch-to-readable-dates/54179/2 "2021-08-24T10:40:56Z")

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What exactly do you want to see?  
The Tag JR\_DATE with something like `2015`? Or `2015-05-27`?

What should 42149 be? Wednesday, May 27, 2015?  
The so called "Days Since 1900-01-01"?