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<div id="function.gettimeofday" class="refentry">

 <div class="refnamediv">

  <h1 class="refname">gettimeofday</h1>

  <p class="verinfo">(PHP 4, PHP 5)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">gettimeofday</span> &mdash; <span class="dc-title">Get current time</span></p>



 </div>



 <a name="function.gettimeofday.description"></a><div class="refsect1 description">

  <h3 class="title">Description</h3>

  <div class="methodsynopsis dc-description">

   <span class="type"><a href="language.pseudo-types.php#language.types.mixed" class="type mixed">mixed</a></span> <span class="methodname"><b>gettimeofday</b></span>

    ([ <span class="methodparam"><span class="type">bool</span> <tt class="parameter">$return_float</tt></span>

  ] )</div>



  <p class="para rdfs-comment">

   This is an interface to gettimeofday(2). It returns an

   associative array containing the data returned from the system

   call.

  </p>

 </div>





 <a name="function.gettimeofday.parameters"></a><div class="refsect1 parameters">

  <h3 class="title">Parameters</h3>

  <p class="para">

   </p><dl>



    <dt class="varlistentry">



     <span class="term"><i><tt class="parameter">return_float</tt></i>

</span>



     </dt><dd class="listitem">



      <p class="para">

       When set to <b><tt class="constant">TRUE</tt></b>, a float instead of an array is returned.

      </p>

     </dd>



    

   </dl>

<p>

  </p>

 </div>





 <a name="function.gettimeofday.returnvalues"></a><div class="refsect1 returnvalues">

  <h3 class="title">Return Values</h3>

  <p class="para">

   By default an <a href="language.types.array.php" class="type array">array</a> is returned. If <i><tt class="parameter">return_float</tt></i>



   is set, then a <a href="language.types.float.php" class="type float">float</a> is returned.

  </p>

  <p class="para">

   Array keys:

   </p><ul class="itemizedlist">

    <li class="listitem">

     <span class="simpara">

      &quot;sec&quot; - seconds since the Unix Epoch

     </span>

    </li>

    <li class="listitem">

     <span class="simpara">

      &quot;usec&quot; - microseconds

     </span>

    </li>

    <li class="listitem">

     <span class="simpara">

      &quot;minuteswest&quot; - minutes west of Greenwich

     </span>

    </li>

    <li class="listitem">

     <span class="simpara">

      &quot;dsttime&quot; - type of dst correction

     </span>

    </li>

   </ul><p>

  </p>

 </div>





 <a name="function.gettimeofday.changelog"></a><div class="refsect1 changelog">

  <h3 class="title">Changelog</h3>

  <p class="para">

   </p><table class="doctable informaltable">

    

     <thead valign="middle">

      <tr valign="middle">

       <th>Version</th>

       <th>Description</th>

      </tr>



     </thead>



     <tbody valign="middle" class="tbody">

      <tr valign="middle">

       <td align="left">5.1.0</td>

       <td align="left">

        The <i><tt class="parameter">return_float</tt></i>

 parameter was added.

       </td>

      </tr>



     </tbody>

    

   </table>

<p>

  </p>

 </div>





 <a name="function.gettimeofday.examples"></a><div class="refsect1 examples">

  <h3 class="title">Examples</h3>

  <p class="para">

   </p><div class="example">

    <p><b>Example #1 <b>gettimeofday()</b> example</b></p>

    <div class="example-contents programlisting">

<div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000">

<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php<br />print_r</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">gettimeofday</span><span style="color: #007700">());<br /><br />echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">gettimeofday</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">true</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>

</span>

</code></div>

    </div>



    <div class="example-contents para"><p>The above example will output

something similar to:</p></div>

    <div class="example-contents screen">

<div class="cdata"><pre>

Array

(

    [sec] =&gt; 1073504408

    [usec] =&gt; 238215

    [minuteswest] =&gt; 0

    [dsttime] =&gt; 1

)



1073504408.23910

</pre></div>

    </div>

   </div><p>

  </p>

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