<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >localtime</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="PHP Manual" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Date and Time functions" HREF="ref.datetime.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="gmstrftime" HREF="function.gmstrftime.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="microtime" HREF="function.microtime.html"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="refentry" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >PHP Manual</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.gmstrftime.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="function.microtime.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><H1 ><A NAME="function.localtime" ></A >localtime</H1 ><DIV CLASS="refnamediv" ><A NAME="AEN16882" ></A ><P > (PHP 4 )</P >localtime -- Get the local time</DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN16885" ></A ><H2 >Description</H2 >array <B CLASS="methodname" >localtime</B > ( [int timestamp [, bool is_associative]])<BR ></BR ><P > The <B CLASS="function" >localtime()</B > function returns an array identical to that of the structure returned by the C function call. The first argument to <B CLASS="function" >localtime()</B > is the timestamp, if this is not given the current time is used. The second argument to the <B CLASS="function" >localtime()</B > is the <TT CLASS="parameter" ><I >is_associative</I ></TT >, if this is set to 0 or not supplied than the array is returned as a regular, numerically indexed array. If the argument is set to 1 then <B CLASS="function" >localtime()</B > is an associative array containing all the different elements of the structure returned by the C function call to localtime. The names of the different keys of the associative array are as follows: <P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P > "tm_sec" - seconds </P ></LI ><LI ><P > "tm_min" - minutes </P ></LI ><LI ><P > "tm_hour" - hour </P ></LI ><LI ><P > "tm_mday" - day of the month </P ></LI ><LI ><P > "tm_mon" - month of the year, starting with 0 for January </P ></LI ><LI ><P > "tm_year" - Years since 1900 </P ></LI ><LI ><P > "tm_wday" - Day of the week </P ></LI ><LI ><P > "tm_yday" - Day of the year </P ></LI ><LI ><P > "tm_isdst" - Is daylight savings time in effect </P ></LI ></UL > </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.gmstrftime.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="function.microtime.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >gmstrftime</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="ref.datetime.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >microtime</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >