I like to make timestamps, expressed in UTC, in following the format:
4-digit year, 2-digit month, 2-digit day, 2-digit hour, 2-digit minute, 2-digit seconds
Here are a few ways to do that easily.Python 3.x
from time import gmtime, strftime
print(strftime("%Y%m%d%H%M%S", gmtime()))
PHP
echo gmdate("YmdHis");
*nix date command
date -u +%Y%m%d%H%M%S
Windows
Note that this is local time
for /f "tokens=2,3,4,5,6,7 delims=./: " %a in ('echo %DATE% %TIME%') do echo %c%a%b%d%e%f