---
title: "fromMillis"
description: "Creates a date object given a millisecond value."
---

# fromMillis

> Creates a date object given a millisecond value.

**This function is used by Ignition's Expression language.**

## Description

Creates a date object given a time, in milliseconds, past Unix epoch (1 January 1970 at midnight UTC).

## Syntax

`fromMillis(millis)`

### Parameters

| Type    | Parameter | Description                                              |
|---------|-----------|----------------------------------------------------------|
| Integer | `millis`  | The number of milliseconds since Unix epoch time (1 January 1970 at midnight UTC). |

### Returns

**Date** - A date object representing the given number of milliseconds since epoch time.

## Examples

```python title="Code Snippet"
fromMillis(1503092125000)//This example will print out the date "Fri Aug 18 14:35:25 PDT 2017"
```