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<h1 class="refname">time</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PHP 4, PHP 5)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">time</span> — <span class="dc-title">Return current Unix timestamp</span></p>
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<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
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<span class="type">int</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>time</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam">void</span>
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<p class="para rdfs-comment">
Returns the current time measured in the number of seconds since
the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT).
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<h3 class="title">Examples</h3>
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<p><strong>Example #1 <span class="function"><strong>time()</strong></span> example</strong></p>
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<div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000">
<span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br />$nextWeek </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">time</span><span style="color: #007700">() + (</span><span style="color: #0000BB">7 </span><span style="color: #007700">* </span><span style="color: #0000BB">24 </span><span style="color: #007700">* </span><span style="color: #0000BB">60 </span><span style="color: #007700">* </span><span style="color: #0000BB">60</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /> </span><span style="color: #FF8000">// 7 days; 24 hours; 60 mins; 60secs<br /></span><span style="color: #007700">echo </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'Now: '</span><span style="color: #007700">. </span><span style="color: #0000BB">date</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'Y-m-d'</span><span style="color: #007700">) .</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"\n"</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br />echo </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'Next Week: '</span><span style="color: #007700">. </span><span style="color: #0000BB">date</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'Y-m-d'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$nextWeek</span><span style="color: #007700">) .</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"\n"</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /></span><span style="color: #FF8000">// or using strtotime():<br /></span><span style="color: #007700">echo </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'Next Week: '</span><span style="color: #007700">. </span><span style="color: #0000BB">date</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'Y-m-d'</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">strtotime</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'+1 week'</span><span style="color: #007700">)) .</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"\n"</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span>
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<div class="example-contents"><p>The above example will output
something similar to:</p></div>
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Now: 2005-03-30
Next Week: 2005-04-06
Next Week: 2005-04-06
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<div class="refsect1 notes" id="refsect1-function.time-notes">
<h3 class="title">Notes</h3>
<div class="tip"><strong class="tip">Tip</strong>
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Timestamp of the start of the request is available in
<var class="varname"><var class="varname"><a href="reserved.variables.server.html" class="classname">$_SERVER['REQUEST_TIME']</a></var></var> since PHP 5.1.
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<div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-function.time-seealso">
<h3 class="title">See Also</h3>
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<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.date.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">date()</a> - Format a local time/date</span></li>
<li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.microtime.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">microtime()</a> - Return current Unix timestamp with microseconds</span></li>
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