in Seconds?

[Bickey]

How do I echo the time in SECONDS?

 

$tz =  new DateTimeZone('America/Chicago');
$date = new DateTime('now', $tz);
$mtime =  $date->format('Y-m-d H:i:s');
echo ($mtime);

 

E.g. 1296057739

[DJTim666]

Calling the date() function without parameters will give you a timestamp. This would be the same for the time() function aswell

[Bickey]

Thanks. But I'm having problems when I echo a time in different time zone. I get complaints from other countries saying they see different a time than the time. How can I solve this and make php echo a time for a particular time zone? (America/Chicago)

[MatthewJ]

you're wanting to get the timezone from the client pc. In that case, you would need to use something like javascript. Obviously that would rely on users having javascript enabled.. not much of an issue these days.

[Bickey]

  Isn't there a way to echo a time for a particular time zone?

[smerny]

http://php.net/manual/en/function.date-default-timezone-set.php

[MatthewJ]

Oh, what he said

[ignace]

Calling the date() function without parameters will give you a timestamp. This would be the same for the time() function aswell

 

Calling date without parameter returns a nice warning: "date() expects at least 1 parameter"