Epoch 1.6.0

Time display for nerds: Unix, sidereal, binary clocks & more.

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About Epoch

Epoch shows the current moment across a wide range of time systems — updating every second, all in one place. 28 values, from Unix time and sidereal time to Swatch Internet Time and the Doomsday Clock.

What Epoch gives you
- Civil: date, time, day second, day percent, seven-segment clock — for any time zone
- Technical: Unix time, International Atomic Time (TAI), GPS time
- Astronomical: Greenwich and Local Mean Sidereal Time (GMST, LMST), Julian Date and six variants
- Curiosities: decimal time, Swatch Internet Time, New Earth Time, Doomsday Clock, Roman numerals time, 3 binary clocks, octal and hexadecimal time
Copy any value to clipboard with one tap or long press.

Time zones, done thoroughly
- Every IANA time zone, found by city, country, capital, name, abbreviation or UTC offset — in English and German.
- Epoch brings its own up-to-date time zone data, so even phones that no longer get system updates show the right time and the right clock changes.
- 7-day advance notice of clock changes, with upcoming transitions in the value's info dialog.
- Optionally pin time zones to always show standard or summer time.

Time Shift
Show any moment between 1970 and 2038 in all time systems, running or frozen, without touching your system clock. Check past clock change rules, leap seconds or Doomsday Clock settings, or simply pause time.

Configurable
- Build your own Watchlist tabs — combine any value from any category, in any order.
- All built-in tabs (Civil, Technical, Astronomical, Curiosities) are fully customizable too, and can be hidden and restored anytime.
- Set custom labels, section headers, and dividers.
- Reorder by drag-and-drop, swipe to remove.
- Customize date and time formats, configure time zone information.
- 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.
- Burn-in protection through gentle, periodic pixel shifting (especially useful on OLED screens).
- Optionally start the app directly in Focus mode.

Designed for night use
Night mode displays red text on black — preserving your eyes' dark adaptation for stargazing.

Example configurations and documentation
Ready-to-import example configurations (spaceflight, world time zone explorer, ...), a config manual and the time zone search guide are available on GitHub.

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.
Free software (GPL-3.0-or-later), reproducible builds.

Available in English and German.
Release info Update on Oct 28, 2026
Release notes > [!NOTE]
> The first batch of apks were replaced after an F-Droid build issue.

Epoch's 10th release is a milestone in several ways:
First, a lot of work has gone into redesigning its time zone handling (I'm finally happy with it!), to close remaining gaps and provide you with reliable, _up-to-date time zone info worldwide -- even on old phones_. (I'm proud to say mine is from 2018 -- Android and Epoch disagree about the time in Winnipeg this November, Epoch is right.) At the same time, the search screen has been optimised. You can read up about all your search options in the wiki.
Second, the massive refactoring under the hood paves the way for cool new features: with the introduction of Time Shift, Epoch goes beyond the present and allows time travel into the past and future (within limits, from 1970 to 2038).
Display a moment without messing with your system's time? Check out past DST rules or Doomsday Clock values? Ever wanted to pause time? With Epoch, now you can. More cool stuff is planned and in the making.
This release also includes a new value type (Roman numerals time) and other improvements.

From now on every release comes with sha256sums.txt. See the README for how to verify the APK signature.

By the way, have you heard? Leap seconds are to be abolished in May 2027. Epoch now knows all 27 leap seconds since 1972 (TAI, GPS time), the longest year on record (31,622,402 seconds).

Added
• Time Shift (new menu item): show any moment between 1970 and 2038 in all values, running or frozen,
without touching the system clock; title bar shows the real system time meanwhile,
Focus screen has an optional indicator, new config key focus_time_shift_indicator (cf. config manual)
• new value type: Roman numerals time under Curiosities (12/24-hour format, seconds optional)
• (more) license texts (CLDR, JetBrains Mono) readable in the app

Changed
• one shared clock (EffectiveClock) for tabs, Focus screen and clock change notices
• time zone handling systematically…
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