time()

[Jazzy_Girl]

Hi, can someone please tell me what this means in time? For instance
does it return a specific time? If so what is it? Thanks!

time()+606024*30

[suntra]

time() is now in seconds since Jan 1st 1970

Then 60 is 60 seconds
The other 60 is 60 minutes
Then 24 hours
Then 30 days

So How many seconds in 30 days ?

Answer : in one day, there are 24 hours, and every hour has 60 minutes, and every minute has 60 seconds, so in 30 days, there will be 606024*30 seconds.

So what you get is "now" + 30 days.

[Jazzy_Girl]

Thank you very much! Ok then if I'm worried about days, all I have to do is change the last number right? And is there a limit on how many days you can go? In other words I know this is way over the top but the sake of understanding it fully, could the last number even go for 10 years? 3650

[rowanparker]

Yes you can.
As long as you don't go over 03:14:07 UTC on Tuesday, January 19, 2038 you will be fine.

[Weedpacket]

suntra wrote:

So How many seconds in 30 days ?
...
there will be 606024*30 seconds.

Except when there aren't.

[man]strtotime[/man] has a better idea about how long days are, and results in more readable code.

Of course, the original question:

Jazzy Girl wrote:

Hi, can someone please tell me what this means in time?

could have been answered by looking at the manual page for [man]time[/man], in which the entire section headed "Description" reads:

int time ( void )
Returns the current time measured in the number of seconds since the Unix Epoch (January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT).

[Jazzy_Girl]

I always look at the manual, doesn't mean I understand it. Thanks everybody!