Php/docs/function.time

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time

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)

time — Return current Unix timestamp

Description

time ( ) : int

Returns the current time measured in the number of seconds since the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT).

Examples

Example #1 time() example

<?php$nextWeek = time() + (7 * 24 * 60 * 60);                   // 7 days; 24 hours; 60 mins; 60 secsecho 'Now:       '. date('Y-m-d') ."\n";echo 'Next Week: '. date('Y-m-d', $nextWeek) ."\n";// or using strtotime():echo 'Next Week: '. date('Y-m-d', strtotime('+1 week')) ."\n";?>

The above example will output something similar to:

Now:       2005-03-30
Next Week: 2005-04-06
Next Week: 2005-04-06

Notes

Tip Timestamp of the start of the request is available in $_SERVER['REQUEST_TIME'] since PHP 5.1.

See Also

• date() - Format a local time/date
• microtime() - Return current Unix timestamp with microseconds