code help

[Ninjakreborn]

<?php
print time();
$foo = time();
print $foo;
?>
umm why did this give me
11454150731145415073
that updates every time I hit refresh, is there a better way to do this, htis may be the time, but I don't understand this language of time, I am use to 10:30, 12:20 or so so, military time, gmt +- theories, What is this number here for that autoupdated everytime I hit the refresh button.

[redarrow]

[code]
$mytime=time(hms);
echo $mytime;
[/code]

[Ninjakreborn]

Then I get the output of
1145415854
this is confusing. In javascript you just throw down a few variables ina function, and you can get the time, is it better doing this with javascript. Or is it really complicated with php.

[neylitalo]

That's the current Unix timestamp. You want to use the date() function to format the date like this:

[code]<?php

$timestamp = time();
$formatted = date("g:h:i", $timestamp);
echo $formatted;

?>[/code]

[Ninjakreborn]

thank you.