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This is a Lua module to translate snowflakes from platforms such as Twitter and Discord to timestamps. This can be used for automatically generating dates for templates like {{cite tweet}}.
Usage
[edit]There is one required parameter: |id_str=, which must be the snowflake ID of the tweet. For example, 1345021162959503360.
{{#invoke:TwitterSnowflake|snowflakeToDate|id_str=1345021162959503360}} returns January 1, 2021.
To specify the date format, use |format=.
{{#invoke:TwitterSnowflake|snowflakeToDate|id_str=1345021162959503360|format=%e %B %Y}} returns 1 January 2021 — useful to specify, especially for use in CS1 citations, in case the default date format would change in the future (though unlikely).
Custom epoch
[edit]By default, the epoch used is that of Twitter. To specify a different epoch, such as that of Twitter, use |epoch=. The epoch of Discord is 1420070400
{{#invoke:TwitterSnowflake|snowflakeToDate|id_str=797545051047460888|epoch=1420070400}} returns January 9, 2021.