php.js : gettimeofday() function

Last update on August 19 2022 21:50:37 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

gettimeofday() function

The gettimeofday() function is used to get current time information as an array.

Version:

1103.1210

Syntax:

gettimeofday(return_float)

Parameter:

Name	Description	Required / Optional	Type
return_float	When set to true, a float value instead of an array is returned.	Optional	Float

Return value:

An associative array. If return_float is set to true, then a float is returned.
Array elements details :

Key	Description
sec	seconds since the Unix Epoch.
usec	Microseconds.
minuteswest	Minutes west of Greenwich.
dsttime	Type of dst correction

Example of php gettimeofday() function.

In the following web document gettimeofday() function returns an associative array which contains time information and when the parameter is set to true it returns an float value. Here we use print_r() function to display the details of an array. print_r() belongs to variable.min.js file.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>php.js : gettimeofday() function example</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../../phpjs/date/datetime.min.js"> </script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="../../phpjs/variable/variable.min.js"> </script>
</head>
<body>
<h1 style="color: green">php.js : gettimeofday() function example</h1>
<h3>Time information</h3>
<hr />
<script type="text/javascript">
//This is done to make the following JavaScript code compatible to XHTML. <![CDATA[
document.write('gettimeofday()'+'<br/>');
x=gettimeofday();
print_r(x);
document.write('<br/>'+'gettimeofday(true))'+'<br/>');
y=gettimeofday(true);
print_r(y);
//]]>
</script>
</body>
</html>

Output of the function

gettimeofday()
Array  (      [sec] => 16  [usec] => 62000  [minuteswest] => -330   [dsttime] => 0  ) 
gettimeofday(true))
1309780636.064

Note : Since the current time is not static, therefore the output may vary.

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