time()

time() — Return current Unix timestamp.

Built-in function of PHP 8.5. The manual lists it as available in PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8. This page is the reference card: signature, parameters and return value, plus the changelog and the example the manual provides.

What it does

Returns the current time measured in the number of seconds since the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT).

Signature

time(): int

Parameters

This function takes no parameters.

Return value

Returns the current timestamp.

Example

A runnable snippet:

echo 'Now: '. time();

Output:

Now: 1660338149

See also

date(), microtime()

All PHP 8.5 built-in functions

Reference card built from the PHP manual page time() (PHP documentation, CC BY 3.0). The page is generated from the manual, so the wording of the parameter and return value text follows php.net.