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(PHP 3, PHP 4, PHP 5)
Returns the current time measured in the number of seconds since the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT).
Tip: Timestamp of the start of the request is available in $_SERVER['REQUEST_TIME'] since PHP 5.1.
Example 1. time() example
<?php$nextWeek = time() + (7 * 24 * 60 * 60); // 7 days; 24 hours; 60 mins; 60secsecho 'Now: '. date('Y-m-d') ."\n";echo 'Next Week: '. date('Y-m-d', $nextWeek) ."\n";?>
The above example will output something similar to:
Now: 2005-03-30 Next Week: 2005-04-07
See also date() and microtime().