Programming PHP, 3rd Edition

Name

gettimeofday

Synopsis

mixed gettimeofday([ bool return_float ])

Returns an associative array containing information about the current time, as obtained through gettimeofday(2). When return_float is set to true, a float is returned rather than an array.

The array contains the following keys and values:

sec	The current number of seconds since the Unix epoch.
usec	The current number of microseconds to add to the number of seconds.
minuteswest	The number of minutes west of Greenwich the current time zone is.
dsttime	The type of Daylight Savings Time correction to apply (during the appropriate time of year, a positive number if the time zone observes Daylight Savings Time).