Question

this code always returns 0 in PHP 5.2.5 for microseconds:

<?php $dt = new DateTime(); echo $dt->format('Y-m-d\TH:i:s.u') . '\n'; ?> 

Output:

[root@www1 ~]$ php date_test.php 2008-10-03T20:31:26.000000 [root@www1 ~]$ php date_test.php 2008-10-03T20:31:27.000000 [root@www1 ~]$ php date_test.php 2008-10-03T20:31:27.000000 [root@www1 ~]$ php date_test.php 2008-10-03T20:31:28.000000 

Any ideas?

Answer 1

This seems to work, although it seems illogical that http://us.php.net/date documents the microsecond specifier yet doesn’t really support it:

function getTimestamp() {         return date('Y-m-d\TH:i:s') . substr((string)microtime(), 1, 8); }