Get current time

gettimeofday

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

gettimeofday — Get current time

mixed gettimeofday ([ bool $return_float = false ] )

This is an interface to gettimeofday(2). It returns an associative array containing the data returned from the system call.

return_float: When set to TRUE, a float instead of an array is returned.

By default an array is returned. If return_float is set, then a float is returned.

Array keys:

Version	Description
5.1.0	The `return_float` parameter was added.

Example #1 gettimeofday() example


<?php
print_r(gettimeofday());

echo gettimeofday(true);
?>

The above example will output something similar to:

Array
(
    [sec] => 1073504408
    [usec] => 238215
    [minuteswest] => 0
    [dsttime] => 1
)

1073504408.23910