Question

I’m trying to get the current unix timestamp in AS3 via:

var date:Date = new Date();
var unix:int = date.time;

trace(unix);

For some reason I get:

2775219874

But when I use time() in PHP around the same time, I get:

1321330282

I don’t understand?

I could of course request the timestamp from PHP via URLLoader, but I’d rather get it working properly without needing this if possible.

Answer 1

The issue in my question was being caused by assigning date.time to int instead of Number.

See below for demo of assigning date.time to a variable:

var date:Date = new Date();

var uintVal:uint = date.time;
var intVal:int = date.time;
var numVal:Number = date.time;

trace(uintVal);     // 2776669556
trace(intVal);      // -1518297740
trace(numVal);      // 1321331629428