Bizarre time() output

[trylo99]

As far as I can understand from reading the docs, time(Hjs) is supposed to output something like this: HH:MM:SS, but instead I get this:

1150926775

I have no idea what this is and after a bit of web searching I can't find anyone with a similar problem. No matter what date parameters I use in the function I still get this weird string of incoherent numbers. I am using PHP 5 on Apache 2.2.

If someone could help, I'd appreciate it b/c I'm stuck using a dummy time in my app until it gets fixed.

-Matt

[Installer]

That's a Unix timestamp:

It is the amount of seconds between January 1st 1970 00:00:00 (Unix Epoch) and the present time, to the closest second.

It's the expected return for "time()

time -- Return current Unix timestamp

See here. The Unix timestamp is a basic for working with times/dates.

You're thinking of date(); "date('H:i:s')" will produce hh:mm:ss.