Module:TwitterSnowflake/doc

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
There is one required parameter: id_str, which must be the snowflake ID of the tweet. For example,.

returns.

To specify the date format, use format.

returns — useful to specify, especially for use in CS1 citations, in case the default date format would change in the future (though unlikely).

Custom epoch
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

returns.