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DCode, published by Digital Detective, is a free forensic utility designed to convert timestamp data found on desktop and mobile devices into human-readable timestamps, making it a practical tool for digital forensic investigators, incident responders, and analysts who regularly encounter encoded date and time values during examinations. The software supports 69 different timestamp formats drawn from various operating systems and platforms, accommodating a wide range of representations including Little-Endian and Big-Endian hexadecimal values, 64-bit and 32-bit integers, double-precision floating-point numbers, and text-based formats. This breadth of support allows examiners to interpret timestamps stored in registry entries, file systems, application databases, mobile device artifacts, and other sources without needing separate conversion tools for each format. Beyond decoding, DCode also provides time zone translation, displaying UTC (Zulu) times alongside converted local times based on the selected time zone, which is particularly useful when correlating events across systems configured for different regions or when establishing accurate timelines in an investigation. In addition to conversion from encoded values into readable dates, the utility can encode timestamps into a number of different formats and data types, supporting workflows where analysts need to generate test data or verify how a specific date would appear in a given storage format. As a forensic utility, DCode fits within the digital forensics and system utilities category, serving both desktop and mobile examination scenarios where accurate timestamp interpretation is essential to reconstructing user activity and system events. The current release is version 5.7.26188.46, which is the sole version presently listed in the catalog. Because DCode is distributed free of charge, it offers an accessible option for practitioners, students, and organizations seeking a dedicated timestamp conversion capability without licensing costs. Its combination of broad format coverage, bidirectional conversion, and time zone handling positions it as a focused, specialized resource within a forensic examiner's toolkit.
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