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<h1 class="refname">MongoId::getTimestamp</h1>
<p class="verinfo">(PECL mongo >= 1.0.1)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">MongoId::getTimestamp</span> — <span class="dc-title">Gets the number of seconds since the epoch that this id was created</span></p>
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<h3 class="title">Description</h3>
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<span class="modifier">public</span> <span class="type">int</span> <span class="methodname"><strong>MongoId::getTimestamp</strong></span>
( <span class="methodparam">void</span>
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This returns the same thing as running <span class="function"><a href="function.time.html" class="function">time()</a></span> when the id is created.
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<h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>
<p class="para">This function has no parameters.</p>
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Returns the number of seconds since the epoch that this id was created. There are only
four bytes of timestamp stored, so <a href="class.mongodate.html" class="classname">MongoDate</a> is a better choice
for storing exact or wide-ranging times.
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