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(PHP 3 >= 3.0.7, PHP 4, PHP 5)
This is an interface to gettimeofday(2). It returns an associative array containing the data returned from the system call.
Since PHP 5.1.0 there is an optional parameter, return_float, which makes gettimeofday() return a float when it is set to TRUE.
Array keys:
"sec" - seconds since the Unix Epoch
"usec" - microseconds
"minuteswest" - minutes west of Greenwich
"dsttime" - type of dst correction
Example 1. gettimeofday() example
<?phpprint_r(gettimeofday());echo gettimeofday(true);?>
The above example will output something similar to:
Array ( [sec] => 1073504408 [usec] => 238215 [minuteswest] => 0 [dsttime] => 1 ) 1073504408.23910