time
Description
The time of Date / Time for PHP returns the current Unix timestamp.
Syntax
time(): int
Return
Returns the current time measured in the number of seconds since the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT).
Examples
1 · void
<? $return = time(); echo $return;
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2
<? $return = time(); $second = 1; $minute = $second * 60; $hour = $minute * 60; $day = $hour * 24; $week = $day * 7; $month = $day * 30; $year = $day * 365; $format = "Y-m-d H:i:s"; echo date($format, $return), " now", PHP_EOL, date($format, $return + $second), " next second", PHP_EOL, date($format, $return + $minute), " next minute", PHP_EOL, date($format, $return + $hour), " next hour", PHP_EOL, date($format, $return + $day), " next day", PHP_EOL, date($format, $return + $week), " next week", PHP_EOL, date($format, $return + $month), " next month", PHP_EOL, date($format, $return + $year), " next year";
2026-07-22 12:08:35 now 2026-07-22 12:08:36 next second 2026-07-22 12:09:35 next minute 2026-07-22 13:08:35 next hour 2026-07-23 12:08:35 next day 2026-07-29 12:08:35 next week 2026-08-21 12:08:35 next month 2027-07-22 12:08:35 next year
Links
Date / Time
- checkdate
- date
- date_add
- date_create
- date_create_from_format
- date_create_immutable
- date_create_immutable_from_format
- date_date_set
- date_default_timezone_get
- date_default_timezone_set
- date_diff
- date_format
- date_get_last_errors
- date_interval_create_from_date_string
- date_interval_format
- date_isodate_set
- date_modify
- date_offset_get
- date_parse
- date_parse_from_format
- date_sub
- date_sun_info
- date_sunrise
- date_sunset
- date_time_set
- date_timestamp_get
- date_timestamp_set
- date_timezone_get
- date_timezone_set
- getdate
- gettimeofday
- gmdate
- gmmktime
- gmstrftime
- idate
- localtime
- microtime
- mktime
- strftime
- strptime
- strtotime
- timezone_abbreviations_list
- timezone_identifiers_list
- timezone_location_get
- timezone_name_from_abbr
- timezone_name_get
- timezone_offset_get
- timezone_open
- timezone_transitions_get
- timezone_version_get