[Oriya-group] time stamp

[phatak at iopb.res.in]

Hi,

On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, abhisek mohanty wrote:

> I would like to know about time stamp.......
> if i take the value of time() today in one variable $a and again 
> tomorrow at the same time i take the value of time() function in $b then 
> will the value of $b greater than $a ?
> Or will $a be equal to $b?
> 

If I remember correctly, time() retuns an integer which represents no. of 
seconds elapsed since some zero time ( sometime in 1970 or so ). So $a and 
$b won't be equal. Incidently, this is a good function to call to seed a 
random number generator. 

Phatak

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