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PHP TIME STAMP and DATE function

PHP time stamp is a numeric value in seconds between the time at present and the value at Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT). This time of January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT is taken as base for all time stamp calculations. Below is the time stamp or the number of seconds lapsed after January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT and when this page is loaded ( or opened by you). You can refresh this page to see the current time stamp. Press the refresh button of your browser to reload this page to see the current time stamp.

Current time stamp= 1211034379

You can use php time stamp generator to find the time stamp of any date, month, year with hour minute and seconds

In PHP the function giving the current time stamp value is time(). So we can write a line like below to get the current time stamp value.

<? echo time(); ?>

This line will print the value of current time stamp as displayed at the top. Time stamp is used in many PHP applications and from time stamp the current date and many different date format can be taken by using different functions in PHP. We will display the time stamp first and then use the code to display the current date from the time stamp.

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• PHP Date Format
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• Time Stamp Generator

Here is the current time stamp : 1211034379

We used echo time() to display the above line.

From the value above let us display the current date and time by using the date function

echo date("m/d/y",time())

You can find detail php date today functions and php date formats in other tutorials in this section.Here is the current date and month value using the above timestamp. 05/17/08
If you want to display the current time along with the date then change the format of the date function like this
date("d/m/y : H:i:s", time())
the out put of this will be like this : 17/05/08 : 09:26:19

Don't forget to refresh this page to see how the value changes.

Please note that the current date and time value displayed will be affected by default time zone set in your php.ini file of the server.

If you are testing this script in your local machine then take care of time zone setting in your php.ini file is set to your time zone.

You can change your time zone setting at your script page level by using this command

date_default_timezone_set ("Asia/Calcutta");

Or ( one more example )

date_default_timezone_set ("America/Denver");