I need a timestamp code similar to this JavaScript code:
new Date().getTime()
I tried this PHP code:
$date = new DateTime();
$ts = $date->getTimestamp();
which returns 1376399143 but the JavaScript code returns 1376399143263, I think my PHP code generates a timestamp for only the date. How can I get the timestamp for the time portion as well?
use the code below
$time = mktime(date("H"),date("i"),date("s"),date("n"),date("j"),date("Y"));
echo $time;
for details information on mktime , check this link
You could use microtime, but if you do not need the additional precision (which will get lost because of networking), just divide the javascript time by 1000.
You should use microtime
$seconds = microtime(true); // false = int, true = float
echo round(($seconds * 1000));
The php code generates the timestamp for date and time, but it returns the number of seconds from 1-1-1970. Javascript returns the value in miliseconds.
You could use microtime(true)*1000; for a similar result that Javascript.
Related
I've created a timing system for a charity race. I'm trying to find the difference between the start time and the finishers time using PHP. I'm not sure I'm recording the times correctly, but this is the start time i just recorded...
20180808180653
And this is a finisher time...
20180808180654
The difference between them is roughly 1 hour 24, but when i use...
date('h:i:s', $finshTime-$startTime)
I get 03:24:20 not 01:34:20.
Can someone please help?
The date method accepts as "integer Unix timestamp". You are supplying instead a number of seconds (1 in your example).
$start = '20180808180653';
$end = '20180808180654';
$diff = $end - $start;
var_dump($diff); //1
$d = date('h:i:s', $$diff);
var_dump($d); //04:00:01
//the above is wrong. You need to try something like the code below
$dStart = new DateTime($start);
$dEnd = new DateTime($end);
$interval = $dStart->diff($dEnd);
var_dump($interval->format('%h:%i:%s'));
I'd be leery using a string representation of a datetime that looks like that. Convert the whole thing into a date format that makes sense like yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss, or a valid unix time stamp.
Your first approach isn't that far off, you just need to use a strtotime function. I'd guarantee that you can first make an accurate Date or Unix time representation of those strings you are using. Rest should fall into place.
First check if the type of $finshTime and $startTime are integer.
you can use get variable type:
gettype($startTime);
if this is the case try this with ():
$diff_date = date('h:i:s', ($finshTime - $startTime) );
if $startTime and $finshTime are string try this:
$diff_date = date('h:i:s', (strtotime($finshTime) - strtotime($startTime)) );
I have a datetime string which I would like to crop the 'time' part out of.
I need to do some calculation on it so I need to convert it to Unix time stamp.
What I've tried:
Use substr, and then strtotime, but when checking the result back to a human readable time format, it is not the same as the original date.
function convert($dbTime){
$createDate = new DateTime($dbTime);
$strip = $createDate->format('Y-m-d');
$yearMonthDateArray = explode("-", $strip);
}
The explode here crashes.
Edit:
This is the value of dbTime: "2014-07-27 12:06:00"
I want it to be "2014-07-27", and then have strototime on this format. This does not work. Converting it back to human readable date it generates 2014-07-06
Regarding comments:
I have tried all sorts of datetime functions. They either crash or they don't return the proper time
Explode crashes - it doesn't continue to the next line of code.
Edit2:
This is what's going on next. This returns false
$timeWithMakeTime = mktime(0,0,0,(int)$yearMonthDateArray[0], (int)$yearMonthDateArray[1],(int)$yearMonthDateArray[2]);
Discarding all your messy code, I assume you just want this:
$dbTime = '2014-07-27 12:06:00';
$date = new DateTime($dbTime);
$date->setTime(0, 0, 0);
echo $date->getTimestamp();
DateTime is an object, so what if you want to get timestamp you can do is as follows:
function convert($dbTime){
$createDate = new DateTime($dbTime);
return $createDate->getTimestamp();
}
You can read more about getTimestamp and other DateTime functions
Make sure your variable $dbTime is in correct format. For example DateTime does not support split seconds.
$date = date('H:i:s', strtotime($dbTime));
echo $date;
I'm rounding time to one minute using:
$mytime = mdate("H:i:s", $time_in_seconds);
$rounded_time = date('H:i:s', round(strtotime($mytime)/60)*60);
The output is for example: 01:09:00 from not rounded 01:08:34.
How can use the code but keep the seconds format rather than change to date?
what about using
$rounded_time = date('H:i:0');
?
How to get millisecond between two DateTime objects?
$date = new DateTime();
$date2 = new DateTime("1990-08-07 08:44");
I tried to follow the comment below, but I got an error.
$stime = new DateTime($startTime->format("d-m-Y H:i:s"));
$etime = new DateTime($endTime->format("d-m-Y H:i:s"));
$millisec = $etime->getTimestamp() - $stime->getTimestamp();`
I get the error
Call to undefined method DateTime::getTimestamp()
In the strict sense, you can't.
It's because the smallest unit of time for the DateTime class is a second.
If you need a measurement containing milliseconds then use microtime()
Edit:
On the other hand if you simply want to get the interval in milliseconds between two ISO-8601 datetimes then one possible solution would be
function millisecsBetween($dateOne, $dateTwo, $abs = true) {
$func = $abs ? 'abs' : 'intval';
return $func(strtotime($dateOne) - strtotime($dateTwo)) * 1000;
}
Beware that by default the above function returns absolute difference. If you want to know whether the first date is earlier or not then set the third argument to false.
// Outputs 60000
echo millisecsBetween("2010-10-26 20:30", "2010-10-26 20:31");
// Outputs -60000 indicating that the first argument is an earlier date
echo millisecsBetween("2010-10-26 20:30", "2010-10-26 20:31", false);
On systems where the size of time datatype is 32 bits, such as Windows7 or earlier, millisecsBetween is only good for dates between 1970-01-01 00:00:00 and 2038-01-19 03:14:07 (see Year 2038 problem).
Sorry to digg out an old question, but I've found a way to get the milliseconds timestamp out of a DateTime object:
function dateTimeToMilliseconds(\DateTime $dateTime)
{
$secs = $dateTime->getTimestamp(); // Gets the seconds
$millisecs = $secs*1000; // Converted to milliseconds
$millisecs += $dateTime->format("u")/1000; // Microseconds converted to seconds
return $millisecs;
}
It requires however that your DateTime object contains the microseconds (u in the format):
$date_str = "20:46:00.588";
$date = DateTime::createFromFormat("H:i:s.u", $date_str);
This is working only since PHP 5.2 hence the microseconds support to DateTime has been added then.
With this function, your code would become the following :
$date_str = "1990-08-07 20:46:00.588";
$date1 = DateTime::createFromFormat("Y-m-d H:i:s.u", $date_str);
$msNow = (int)microtime(true)*1000;
echo $msNow - dateTimeToMilliseconds($date1);
DateTime supports microseconds since 5.2.2. This is mentioned in the documentation for the date function, but bears repeating here. You can create a DateTime with fractional seconds and retrieve that value using the 'u' format string.
<?php
// Instantiate a DateTime with microseconds.
$d = new DateTime('2011-01-01T15:03:01.012345Z');
// Output the microseconds.
echo $d->format('u'); // 012345
// Output the date with microseconds.
echo $d->format('Y-m-d\TH:i:s.u'); // 2011-01-01T15:03:01.012345
// Unix Format
echo "<br>d2: ". $d->format('U.u');
function get_data_unix_ms($data){
$d = new DateTime($data);
$new_data = $d->format('U.u');
return $new_data;
}
function get_date_diff_ms($date1, $date2)
{
$d1 = new DateTime($date1);
$new_d1 = $d1->format('U.u');
$d2 = new DateTime($date2);
$new_d2 = $d2->format('U.u');
$diff = abs($new_d1 - $new_d2);
return $diff;
}
https://www.php.net/manual/en/class.datetime.php
Here's a function to do that + tests.
https://gist.github.com/vudaltsov/0bb623b9e2817d6ce359eb88cfbf229d
DateTime dates are only stored as whole seconds. If you still need the number of milliseconds between two DateTime dates, then you can use getTimestamp() to get each time in seconds (then get the difference and turn it into milliseconds):
$seconds_diff = $date2.getTimestamp() - $date.getTimestamp()
$milliseconds_diff = $seconds_diff * 1000
In Actionscript, the Unix timestamp in milliseconds is obtainable like this:
public static function getTimeStamp():uint
{
var now:Date = new Date();
return now.getTime();
}
The doc clearly states the following:
getTime():Number Returns the number of
milliseconds since midnight January 1,
1970, universal time, for a Date
object.
When I trace it, it returns the following:
824655597
So, 824655597 / 1000 / 60 / 60 / 24 / 365 = 0.02 years.
This is obviously not correct, as it should be around 39 years.
Question #1: What's wrong here?
Now, onto the PHP part: I'm trying to get the timestamp in milliseconds there as well. The microtime() function returns either a string (0.29207800 1246365903) or a float (1246365134.01), depending on the given argument. Because I thought timestamps were easy, I was going to do this myself. But now that I have tried and noticed this float, and combine that with my problems in Actionscript I really have no clue.
Question #2: how should I make it returns the amount of milliseconds in a Unix timestamp?
Timestamps should be so easy, I'm probably missing something.. sorry about that. Thanks in advance.
EDIT1: Answered the first question by myself. See below.
EDIT2: Answered second question by myself as well. See below. Can't accept answer within 48 hours.
I used unsigned integer as the return type of the function. This should be Number.
public static function getTimeStamp():Number
{
var now:Date = new Date();
return now.getTime();
}
Think I got the function for getting milliseconds in PHP5 now.
function msTimeStamp() {
return round(microtime(1) * 1000);
}
For actionscript3, new Date().getTime() should work.
In PHP you can simply call time() to get the time passed since January 1 1970 00:00:00 GMT in seconds. If you want milliseconds just do (time()*1000).
If you use microtime() multiply the second part with 1000 to get milliseconds. Multiply the first part with 1000 to get the milliseconds and round that. Then add the two numbers together. Voilá.
Use this:
intval(microtime(true)*1000)
To normalize a timestamp as an integer with milliseconds between Javascript, Actionscript, and PHP
Javascript / Actionscript:
function getTimestamp(){
var d = new Date();
return Date.UTC(d.getFullYear(), d.getMonth(), d.getDate(), d.getHours(), d.getMinutes(), d.getSeconds(), d.getMilliseconds()).valueOf();
}
PHP:
function getTimestamp(){
$seconds = microtime(true); // true = float, false = weirdo "0.2342 123456" format
return round( ($seconds * 1000) );
}
See PHP note at "ben at sixg dot com's" comment at: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.gmmktime.php
EXCERPT:
For most intents and purposes you can imagine that mktime() first converts your input parameters to GMT and then calls gmmktime() which produces a GMT timestamp.
So, time() always will return the same thing at the same actual moment, anywhere in the world.
gmmktime() and mktime(), when given specific time parameters, convert those time parameters FROM the appropriate timezone (GMT for gmmktime(), local time for mktime()), before computing the appropriate timestamp.
UPDATE:
On some versions of PHP, the timestamp with milliseconds is too large to display as a string. So use the sprintf function to get the string value:
PHP
function getTimestamp($asString=false){
$seconds = microtime(true); // false = int, true = float
$stamp = round($seconds * 1000);
if($asString == true){
return sprintf('%.0f', $stamp);
} else {
return $stamp;
}
}
microtime() in php5 returns unix timestamp with microseconds as per microtime() and if the get_as_float argument is not provided, it gives you a string formatted as "msec sec" so the first part is the millisecond part and the second is the second part. Just split it in two and you get the two parts of the timestamp
Simple answer for PHP:
function exact_time() {
$t = explode(' ',microtime());
return ($t[0] + $t[1]);
}
To get millisecond timestamp from PHP DateTime object:
<?php
date_default_timezone_set('UTC');
$d = new \DateTime('some_data_string');
$mts = $d->getTimestamp().substr($d->format('u'),0,3); // millisecond timestamp
PHP 7
This function has its return type declared.
function timestamp_ms(): int {
$times = gettimeofday();
$seconds = strval($times["sec"]);
$milliseconds = strval(floor($times["usec"]/1000));
$missingleadingzeros = 3-strlen($milliseconds);
if($missingleadingzeros >0){
for($i = 0; $i < $missingleadingzeros; $i++){
$milliseconds = '0'.$milliseconds;
}
}
return intval($seconds.$milliseconds);
}
PHP 5
function timestamp_ms() {
$times = gettimeofday();
$seconds = strval($times["sec"]);
$milliseconds = strval(floor($times["usec"]/1000));
$missingleadingzeros = 3-strlen($milliseconds);
if($missingleadingzeros >0){
for($i = 0; $i < $missingleadingzeros; $i++){
$milliseconds = '0'.$milliseconds;
}
}
return intval($seconds.$milliseconds);
}
when you need the millisecond in str format, I think you should use:
public function get_millisecond() {
list($milliPart, $secondPart) = explode(' ', microtime());
$milliPart = substr($milliPart, 2, 3);
return $secondPart . $milliPart;
}
this will fix the bug int some get millisecond example where the milli part is like : 0.056. some example convert the milli part to float, your will get 56 instead of 056. I think some one want 056.
especially when you need the millisecond to order some data.
hope will help. :)
I recently had this problem to get a timestamp in milliseconds. To just multiply the unix timestamp by 1000 did not resolve the problem because i had to compare two database entrys very precicely. Aparently the php datetime object can´t handle milliseconds/microseconds but its stored in the datetime string anyway. So here is my solution:
$dateObject = new \DateTime('2015-05-05 12:45:15.444', new \DateTimeZone('Europe/London'));
$millis = $dateObject->format('v');
echo $dateObject->getTimestamp()*1000+$millis;
This should also work with microseconds if you use format->('u') (and of course multiply the timestamp by 1000000) instead. I hope you find this useful.
Something like this:
$mili_sec_time = $_SERVER['REQUEST_TIME_FLOAT'] * 1000;
Gives float type representing miliseconds from UNIX epoch to starts of the request.
$timestamp = str_replace(".","",number_format((float)microtime(true),2,'.',''));